IMAP Server recommendations ...

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Jan 12, 2006, A. Khattri wrote:
>On Thu, 12 Jan 2006, Bill Campbell wrote:
>
>> The testing I did with squirrelmail left me unimpressed with anything other
>> than it's slowness when dealing with large imap folders.
>
>You can use imapproxyd to reduce the load on Courier-IMAP-based setups.

I'm not sure that the load on the IMAP server is the important factor.
Thunderbird is quite fast dealing with my IMAP folders where many of the
folders have > 4,000 messages in them.  On the other hand, Apple's Mail.app
is quite slow on the same mail stores.

>> We're using the
>> current version of IMP and horde which seems quite a bit faster, and has
>> nice features like virtual folders which are basically stored search
>> procedures (e.g. you can have folders that show only unread mail in one or
>> more IMAP folders).
>
>With the "funky" IMAP namespace...?

I haven't seen any funky namespace problems using IMP with courier-imap.

Our main webmail server here uses IMP as the primary login for horde, and
allows one to select from several back-end IMAP servers and associated
domains.

Bill
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