Courier IMAPd and UW IMAPd Very Slow

Gary gv-list-freebsdquestions at mygirlfriday.info
Tue Sep 16 17:51:49 PDT 2003


Hello Jason,

Tuesday, September 16, 2003, 5:56:37 PM, you wrote:

JLS> I've been looking into setting up IMAPd support on my mail servers,
JLS> and i got it working with both UW and Courier, but both seem to take
JLS> way to long (upwards of minutes) to login and fetch my mail. (like 10
JLS> messages) on the test acct.

Courier only uses the Maildir format, and UM does not (mbox format), so
they are incompatible.  You have to decide which way you want to go. If
you decide on Maildir format, please also try Bincimap. It is 1000s of
lines shorter than Courier, very fast. I use it in FBSD 4.8 now.


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Best regards,
 Gary 



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