Mail system Suggestions

[Martin Hepworth]

On a side note, I found Outlook 2003 really shoddy/poor at working with IMAP
based systems, esp when you have lots of rules to run and lots of emails to
download first thing in the morning.

eg would easily 10 minutes to synchonise, whereas thunderbird takes about 10
seconds!

So from now I say Outlook doesn't work with IMAP, but merely tolerates them
;-(

-- 
Martin

On 7/23/06, Mikhail Goriachev <mikhailg at webanoide.org> wrote:
>
> jan gestre wrote:
> > On 7/22/06, Dave <dmehler26 at woh.rr.com> wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>     I would recommend dovecot. It's capable of both imap as well as pop
> if
> >> you later want to add that and can do encrypted versions of those
> >> protocols
> >> as well. Dovecot is also in my opinion much easier to configure and
> less
> >> resource intensive than other imap servers.
> >>     If i can be of any assistance let me know.
> >> Thanks.
> >> Dave.
> >
> >
> >
> > i second it, dovecot works great, try it.
>
>
> I'm not into starting a flaming session, but dovecot's indexing/caching
> capabilities are the only things that make it fast. Am I right? Well, it
> is also written in C. I came across a few posts[1][2], though they're
> old, saying that everything depends on e-mail clients as well.
>
> I'm responsible for 2 courier-imap in production and about to start
> working on a new one. This and previous threads regarding dovecot caught
> my attention and it sounds interesting. However, what good is there
> having indexes on IMAP server and on local machine?
>
> I realised that my Thunderbird keeps record of all my folders and their
> contents. So roughly I've got ~800MB of e-mails on IMAP and 12MB of
> indexes in Thunderbird's profile. Also, apparently Outlook 2003 caches
> absolutely everything. I've seen accounts with 2.9GB worth of e-mails on
> IMAP and generated outlook.pst as big as 950MB. Maybe dovecot's indexing
> features would be great in webmail environments?
>
> Maybe I just got lost somewhere. Any input would be highly appreciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Mikhail.
>
> [1] -
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19821.html
> [2] -
>
> http://www.mail-archive.com/courier-users@lists.sourceforge.net/msg19834.html
>
>
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