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Subject:Re: [maildropl] HACK proposal - IMAP speedupActions...
From:Ross Becker (ro@rbecker.org)
Date:Sep 8, 2004 4:27:17 pm
List:net.sourceforge.lists.courier-maildrop

It was just pointed out to me. I've looked it over, and I noted two downsides to it- 1. It's very young 2. It does not support quotas / maildir++

It does however, look promising.

--Ross Tom Metro wrote:

Ross Becker wrote:

Currently, the performance of free IMAP servers at certain operations is very bad for large folders. The primary reason is that maildir (and maildir++) has no indexing at all.

[...]

I'm looking at hacking maildrop and Courier-IMAP to maintain fixed-length record list files...

Have you looked at the Dovecot IMAP server?

The author of Dovecot writes on http://www.dovecot.org/:

...I believe it already beats most other IMAP servers in overall performance. This is mostly because of index files that Dovecot maintains; instead of having to scan through all the data in mailbox, Dovecot can get most of the wanted information from index with little effort.

-Tom