QMail, Courier-IMAP, Squirrelmail

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Mar 01, 2004, james at jamesmcdonald.id.au wrote:
>On Sun, Feb 29, 2004 at 09:58:26PM +0100, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>> On Sun, 2004-02-29 at 20:22, Bill Campbell wrote:
>> > On Sun, Feb 29, 2004, Roger Oberholtzer wrote:
>> > >I, too, use Courier-IMAP and squirrel mail. But if I had one complaint
>> > >against squirrel mail it would be that all IMAP accounts must be on a
>> > >single machine. I do not see that this is a user setting. No?
>> > 
>> > I looked briefly at squirrelmail just last week as a possible alternative
>> > to horde/imp, and it appeared to support only one IMAP server.  IMP
>> > supports multiple servers which may be any combination of IMAP (secure and
>> > standard), POP (secure and standard).
>> > 
>> > In my brief testing of squirrelmail, I found it would hang on folders
>> > containing a few thousand messages.

>I am not sure but I think this may be the mbox format and the work the IMAP
>server has to do to parse the emails and render them into seperate headers.
>I have noticed the Maildir format returns a list in squirrelmail quicker.

That's not it.  We're running Courier-imap on all our systems
(which does Maildir).

Bill
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