IMAP Performance

[Rick Stevens]

karlp at ourldsfamily.com wrote:
> As I prepare to move to a faster server, I am seeing the old server bogged
> down significantly by imapd. How must faster are the various IMAP servers
> available. I've heard a few names, such as Courier, WAimap, but have no
> experience with installing, configuring or maintaining anything other than
> the default imap server that comes with RH (rh6, rh7, rh8, rh9 and now
> FC4).
> 
> Any help or suggestions are welcome.

FC4 (and 3 for that matter), by default come with Dovecot.  It shouldn't
be a huge load, but it does use maildir format as opposed to mbox
format.

The RH ones were based on c-client (Mark Crispin's code).  It's been
known as c-client, UW-IMAP and a bunch of other names.

There are good notes in /usr/share/doc/dovecot-* on FC3/FC4 boxes,
including a "REDHAT-FAQ.txt" document that tells you what you need to do
to make it all go.
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