Planning Mail Server (with low resources)

[robin at bullseye.tv (Robin Mordasiewicz)]

On Tue, 6 Dec 2005, Aleksandar Milivojevic wrote:

> Rodrigo Barbosa wrote:
>
>> You might also want to change Cyrus-imapd to something simpler, like
>> wu-imapd, since it should take less resources from the machine. Then 
>> again,
>> I have very little experience with cyrus, since I either use wu or 
>> courrier.
>
> Cyrus needs less resources than wu-imapd.  Each time you open mailbox, 
> wu-imapd needs to read it from beggining to the end from the disk, and 
> alocate possibly large chunks of memory as long as you keep connection open. 
> Cyrus will simply consult its internal database.  Huge difference in speed 
> and load on machine.  So, the slower/older your hardware is, the more 
> inclined you should be to run cyrus.

but it is much easier to add older machines to a pool of imap servers 
using courier than cyrus