Mark wrote: > Your setup may be able to handle IMAP just fine, but it could at least > as easily handle POP3. If you're running it on an ARM system you > clearly are not leaving messages (especially with large attachments) > on the server indefinitely (there's no ARM system I know of that has > the storage for that), so you're really using it as if it were a POP3 > system anyway... > There is literally hundreds of different ARM systems available with IDE/SATA/USB ports that can scale to pretty much unlimited quantities of storage. You can walk down to your nearest well equipped computer store and by ARM system with a terabyte of storage[1]. Please at least try to do some cursory research before spewing lines to a public mailing list. > Anyway, I didn't say that IMAP was a "resource hog" in the grand > scheme of computing, only in comparison with POP3. > Is this too based on gut feeling or do you have some numbers behind it? Using a indexing IMAP server such as dovecot together with dovecot-mda will create pretty much no load whatsoever. Other parts of the equation such spam and virus scanning are going to hog much more resources. [1] http://www.linuxdevices.com/news/NS5637467946.html _______________________________________________ maemo-users mailing list maemo-users@xxxxxxxxx https://lists.maemo.org/mailman/listinfo/maemo-users
