Re: Webmail options

[Ivan Shmakov]

>>>>> Lewis <g.k...@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> writes:

[Cross-posting to news:comp.infosystems.www.misc and
news:comp.mail.misc, for the discussion at hand is much more
fitting these, rather than news:alt.html.]

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> I need to look at Roundcube again, but Squirrelmail is... well, it's
> slow. The only person I have who actively uses Squirrelmail is one
> of those "Inbox infinity" people who keeps thousands of mail messages
> in the inbox. Squirrelmail barfs.

Is it possible that the root of this problem is the underlying
mailbox format, and not the SquirrelMail software itself?

For instance, operating on a Unix mbox containing "thousands of
messages" is most probably going to be slow. Maildir is much
more suitable choice in this case.

FWIW, I can't readily recall any issues with SquirrelMail
serving as a frontend to a Dovecot IMAP server, with the Maildir
format being used for the underlying storage. (However, I can't
readily recall if anyone was storing thousands of messages on
that server, either.)

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