From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 8 20:13:28 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 016DB16A422 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:13:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from shiva.jussieu.fr (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7DE6443D70 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 20:13:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jas@math.jussieu.fr) Received: from riemann.math.jussieu.fr (riemann.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.3]) by shiva.jussieu.fr (8.13.5/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k18KDNMU052482 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:13:23 +0100 (CET) X-Ids: 168 Received: from grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (grobner2.math.jussieu.fr [134.157.13.119]) by riemann.math.jussieu.fr (8.12.10/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k18KDMZb099606 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:13:22 +0100 (CET) Received: from grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/jtpda-5.4) with ESMTP id k18KDMBP026411 for ; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:13:22 +0100 Received: (from jas@localhost) by grobner2.math.jussieu.fr (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id k18KDLFO026410 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:13:21 +0100 Date: Wed, 8 Feb 2006 21:13:21 +0100 From: Albert Shih To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060208201321.GA23773@math.jussieu.fr> References: <20060207222202.GA8604@math.jussieu.fr> <20060208002642.GA7618@alexis.mi.celestial.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20060208002642.GA7618@alexis.mi.celestial.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.6i X-Spam-Score: -1.44 () ALL_TRUSTED X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.54 on 134.157.13.3 X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-1.7.2 (shiva.jussieu.fr [134.157.0.168]); Wed, 08 Feb 2006 21:13:23 +0100 (CET) X-Antivirus: scanned by sophie at shiva.jussieu.fr X-Miltered: at shiva.jussieu.fr with ID 43EA50E3.000 by Joe's j-chkmail (http://j-chkmail.ensmp.fr)! Subject: Re: Large imap server. X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: shih@math.jussieu.fr List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 08 Feb 2006 20:13:28 -0000 Le 07/02/2006 à 16:26:42-0800, Bill Campbell a écrit > On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote: > >Hi all > > > >I search some advice for large imap server. > > > >For me large is : 1000 users with 1 Go mails for each users. And every > >users check by imap/pop those mail every 2 or 3 minutes. > > > >What's the «best» imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (please this > >is not a troll). > > I prefer Courier-imap because it uses Maildir storage while Cyrus > uses something similar in that it stores each message in a file, > but Cyrus also maintains index files which can get corrupted. Yes this is I known, but many «voice» tel me the Cyrus imap is for very huge. But I don't known what's mean «very huge»... > > We have several systems running courier-imap with 6000+ mailboxes > on a single server without problems. And how many mail have every mailboxes ? Whith courier-imap when the user check this mail every 1-2 minutes anyone known if the courier-imap daemon check only on Maildir/new or the daemon check also every Maildir/mailbox1/new Maildir/mailbox2/new etc... Lots of thanks. Regards. -- Albert SHIH Universite de Paris 7 (Denis DIDEROT) U.F.R. de Mathematiques. 7 ième étage, plateau D, bureau 10 Heure local/Local time: Wed Feb 8 21:10:06 CET 2006