Linked by Jon Jensen on Tue 26th Aug 2008 02:53 UTC, submitted by Ryan Masters
The Book of IMAP: Building a Mail Server with Courier and Cyrus, by Peer Heinlein and Peer Hartleben, is a quality resource for any serious mail administrator. The approach taken is direct, but at the same time it's very expansive, setting this book apart from most others I have read. It's packed full of rich examples which are used to solidify the topic being covered. At several places the authors reach out to explain when the subject is addressing ambiguous or otherwise undocumented information which is to great advantage to the reader and worthy of recognition.
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RE[5]: My rants with the IMAP protocol and IMAP servers
by phoenix on Fri 29th Aug 2008 19:36
in reply to "RE[4]: My rants with the IMAP protocol and IMAP servers"
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"I don't consider 5 minutes to search through several hundred thousand messages, and 1.5 GB of mixed text/binary data to be a long time. Maybe it's because I run my searches in the background while doing other things.
I don't know any reaonable company that would accept it. My Gmail that I use for personal purpose does this job in half a second with the web-based interface. "
See my reply below. Seems my IMAP client was the bottleneck, not the IMAP server.
Even if we want to limit IMAP strictly to email purpose, it still has the huge problem of lack of scalability. IMAP server are too slow when you reach a critical size.
What's "critical size"? And what hardware is being used?
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I don't know any reaonable company that would accept it. My Gmail that I use for personal purpose does this job in half a second with the web-based interface.
Even if we want to limit IMAP strictly to email purpose, it still has the huge problem of lack of scalability. IMAP server are too slow when you reach a critical size.