Re: cyrus-imap

[Pawel Salek <pawsa-gpa theochem kth se>]

On 05/08/2004 05:37:54 AM, Dan wrote:
> On Fri, 2004-05-07 at 14:20, Ken Snider wrote:
> > Anyone have any information (anecdotal or otherwise) on the
> performance of
> > cyrus versus UW-IMAPd on really big mailboxes (more than 1 gig/30k
> > messages)? Or is this exclusively a function of mailbox format?
>
> I wondered this myself, as one of the main reasons i switched to
> cyrus-imap was the woeful performance of uw-imap.
>
> On UW-imap, mailboxes only 10meg in size took "a while" to open. Far
> longer than they should. On Cyrus, there was no noticeable delay  
> between clicking on the message, and the message loading in the preview  
> pane.

Did you use mbx mailbox format with UW-IMAP? Did you try searching on the  
server side? -pawel