Large email account

[Simon Matter]

>
>
> --On Monday, December 20, 2004 16:14 -0800 Prasanna Buddhika
> <p_buddhika at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Hi,
>> I have win2000 server running exchange 2000 server.
>> There are 2 large email accounts (700000 emails in a
>> single account) which we don't want to delete. But I
>> want to move these 2 accounts to Linux machine with
>> cyrus-imap server. Migration went very well. Only
>> problem is the speed. When the 2 mail accounts on the
>> exchange server and when I use exchange method to
>> access the account via Microsoft outlook client it
>> won't take even 1 minute to show all the massages. But
>> if I use cyrus-imap to retriew (sync) the email it
>> takes 30 minutes. But after sync it’s fast. Only
>> problem is when ever I logged off the system and log
>> back in to the system again I have to wait 30 minutes
>> to access the mail. Can anyone have a good suggestion
>> to speedup this apart from deleting emails.:)
>
> Ditch outhouse, get a real MUA.  Mulberry does really well with large
> message stores, not sure about others offhand.  Hell even PINE does better
> than Outlook.  The problem is Outlook speaks Exchange, and POP.  It
> doesn't
> do IMAP, nor does Thunderbird/NetScape.  I can hear you all screaming 'BUT
> THEY SPEAK IMAP!' -- no they don't.  If they spoke IMAP they wouldn't'
> need
> to 'syncronize' at all.  They use IMAP to download ALL the message
> headers.
> And then they work it like a regular local mail store, except the bodies
> point off to the IMAP system.  Mulberry (Again Mulberry and PINE are the
> only two I can think of offhand that do it RIGHT, not to say that there
> aren't others!!!) will let the server do the work, and the server has
> Indices.  I can open basically unlimited size mailboxes instantly.
> Mulberry and PINE both just as for the messages inside the view range.
>
> Running a current enough version of Cyrus threading is even done server
> side.  Searches are always done server side.  Outlook is not an IMAP
> client
> AFAIC.  It's a POP client that's been botched to try to use IMAP, same
> with
> T-bird.

The nice thing about Thunderbird is that it works fine. Same goes for
recent kmail versions. Mulberry and PINE may do it better, but they don't
look better.

Simon

Simon


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