[Mimedefang] OT: Anyone here use Dovecot imap server in production evironment?

Shayne Hardesty lists at sh.birmingham.al.us
Wed Apr 6 17:18:46 EDT 2005


   I am preparing to move our imap server away from UW-IMAP to something
more efficient.  Many of our users keep 10,000+ emails in their mailbox,
and UW grinds the machine to a halt when opening one of these.  When you
combine this with the fact multiple users are doing this every 5 minutes
my server spends most of its time in the 2 or 3 cpu load average area.

   From reading Dovecot's site (dovecot.org) it looks promising..  It
can use mbox or maildir, and is written to be fast and secure.  I'm just
wondering if it's ready for prime time yet..  Anyone here use it on a
fairly busy server (500+ users)?  If so please share your experiences
(on list or off, whatever you're comfortable with).

   For those who may suggest cyrus or courrier, I'm evaluating them, but
so far my impression of both is they require a LOT of work to get up and
running.  I like the fact that with UW I can compile, install, and be
done in just a few minutes.  For my needs the less complexity the better.

Thanks,
Shayne




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