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Date:      Wed, 08 Feb 2006 08:55:56 +0100
From:      Martin Hudec <corwin@aeternal.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Large imap server.
Message-ID:  <43E9A40C.4070402@aeternal.net>
In-Reply-To: <20060208002642.GA7618@alexis.mi.celestial.com>
References:  <20060207222202.GA8604@math.jussieu.fr> <20060208002642.GA7618@alexis.mi.celestial.com>

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Hello,

Bill Campbell wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 07, 2006, Albert Shih wrote:
>> 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 =ABbest=BB imap server ? Cyrus Imap or Courier-Imap ? (plea=
se this
>> is not a troll).
>=20
> 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.
>=20
> We have several systems running courier-imap with 6000+ mailboxes
> on a single server without problems.

Dovecot has also nice feature of proxying :) - see more:
http://wiki.dovecot.org/ImapProxy

Cheers,
Martin




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