Date: Thu, 11 Dec 2003 00:32:09 +0100 From: Alexander Marx <mad-ml@madness.at> To: Omar Refai <omar@pimpjesus.com> Cc: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: webmail server Message-ID: <3FD7ACF9.9000407@madness.at> In-Reply-To: <20031210203626.C29598-100000@frankenstein.pimpjesus.com> References: <20031210203626.C29598-100000@frankenstein.pimpjesus.com>
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Omar Refai wrote: > Howdy all. This is my first post. I was wondering if anyone out there is > having much success using a webmail server in production? Tried out horde > but it is incredibly slow. hm .. i don't know how you define "incredibly slow" but my experience with horde/imp is quite the contrary .. its imho pretty fast, has good scalability (e.g. a loadbalancer, a bunch of webservers and the sky is the limit), has a nice/intuitiv looking gui, a reasonable default featureset .. and it's even realtively easy to write your own horde modules ... .. did you read the suggestions in the horde/docs/PERFORMANCE especially regarding PHP accelerators and/or the mcrypt PHP extension .. > I have heard that squirrel mail with dovecot > or courier for an IMAP server is pretty good but haven't heard from anyone > using it at a production level. > arround here, we are using a loadbalanced (w/ linux virtual server) horde/imp setup with a courier-imap backend ... works reasonably well for ~ 45k users. > > -Omar > alex.
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