[KLUG Members] Re: Evoluion 1.2.1 -- hmmm, may be an site issue ...

[Peter Buxton]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2002 at 05:52:36AM -0500, Adam Williams wrote:

> Thats what I did at home.  Originally I was using Sylpheed, which is
> maildir.  But do to massive amount of mail it was *SO* slow, and the
> beast would devour thousands of file handles and bloat to consume
> enormous amounts of RAM.

That's just a dumb app. Even Outlook 2K doesn't show you each message in
a large folder if you quickly scroll down the messages -- it just waits
till you get there and then opens it. Once it have them indexed, why
leave the files open? What if he or she has two clients working?

When reactionaries complain that people use thread support to avoid
event handling and resource management, that is what they're talking
about.

> I switched to local IMAP (UW), and back to mbox, and it solved my
> problem.  

??? Does UW-IMAP use mbox to store mail?

> Whether UW is just more intelligent, or dividing it over multiple
> processes helped... whatever, it was a huge improvement in
> responsiveness.

You have to think, as a mail server and not an MUA, it *must* manage its
resources or else.

> Cyrus IMAP is probably over kill for most home installs,  

~5 MB on my hard drive, not including actual mail; the worst part of
Cyrus was reading all the dire warnings in the docs.  No, SASL was the
screaming pain.

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