Large email account

[Hamish]

On Tuesday 21 December 2004 00:14, Prasanna Buddhika 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.:)
> Thank you,
> Prasan
We had lots of problems with outlook after migrating to cyrus. Try a client 
that can actually talk IMAP - aethera, thunderbird, mozilla mail etc. We have 
moved to thunderbird, waiting for a kontact windows port - outlook just does 
not seem to work with any non ms servers!
Good luck!
H
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