DoveCot vs Cyrus-Imapd Performance

Aleksandar Milivojevic amilivojevic at pbl.ca
Sat Jan 15 02:29:26 UTC 2005


Quoting Ow Mun Heng <Ow.Mun.Heng at wdc.com>
Date: Sat, 15 Jan 2005 08:51:36

> I'm asking about performance and general scalability of Cryus vs that of
> Dovecot. I want to know which scales better,
> 
>1000 mails per folder
>1000 virtual users
>500MB per user quota. (extreme example) 

For given example, both should run just fine, assuming your email server is
running on decent hardware.  Multiply any of the above numbers by 10, and Cyrus
will scale better.  Personaly, for installation of that size, I'd feel better
running Cyrus.

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