IMAP Performance (again)

[Karl Pearson]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:

>On Tue, Aug 23, 2005 at 03:27:52PM -0600, karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
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>>I sent an email a bit ago asking relative performance questions about
>>different IMAP servers. I saved the responses and plan to do something...
>>But, because of the philosophy "if it ain't broke, don't fix it" I haven't
>>changed anything yet.
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>>BUT, I have figured something out. Whenever an Outlook Express IMAP user
>>accesses the server, it's unbearably overwhelming to the system and causes
>>incredible slowness. When Pine or Squirrelmail users access the system,
>>there's no noticable performance hits. With Pine, I understand because it
>>doesn't access all the folders everytime it tries to update things.
>>Outlook Express does this, as does Squirrelmail if the option is set. With
>>the option set in Squirrelmail, it doesn't hit the server as hard as
>>Outlook. Or, have I been smoking something? (don't answer that)...
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>>It's not unusual for this server to have 'uptime' rates in the 4-6 range
>>when Outlook Express is accessing it.
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>>I guess I don't really have a question as much as wondered what thoughts
>>you might have...
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>>Karl
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>I'm curious which IMAP server you are using.
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>Cheers,
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The default that comes with RH8.0... I've not installed anything other 
than default stuff, kind of... That's my general philosophy. It makes 
recovery easier for me.

Karl