{"id":67,"date":"2004-03-08T16:37:00","date_gmt":"2004-03-08T16:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/?p=14"},"modified":"2008-07-24T23:36:48","modified_gmt":"2008-07-25T04:36:48","slug":"a-duh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/2004\/a-duh\/","title":{"rendered":"Default Redhat IMAP configuration does not scale"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><SLASH HREF=\"http:\/\/louis.gerbarg.org\/archives\/000124.html\" ID=\"c9cd4c4670997e726d51312dd600e7ed\" TITLE=\"\" TYPE=\"link\">Many<\/SLASH> <SLASH HREF=\"http:\/\/www.squirrelmail.org\/wiki\/en_US\/history\/SpeedWithUW\" ID=\"b0ce53f5c441d7b7d5286879f3eae5c6\" TITLE=\"\" TYPE=\"link\">others<\/SLASH> have gone through the pain of having to <SLASH HREF=\"http:\/\/www.faqs.org\/docs\/Linux-HOWTO\/Postfix-Cyrus-Web-cyradm-HOWTO.html\" ID=\"c5d16d927225c09a9d45d258ce463f65\" TITLE=\"\" TYPE=\"link\">replace<\/SLASH>\/<SLASH HREF=\"http:\/\/www.washington.edu\/imap\/IMAP-FAQs\/index.html#4.5\" ID=\"311ac5e3c34739117583688fdb782d5c\" TITLE=\"\" TYPE=\"link\">upgrade<\/SLASH> Redhat&#8217;s out-of-the-box IMAP email handling, which goes for compatibility over performance.  And now, sadly, it&#8217;s my turn.<\/p>\n<p>Redhat 9 ships with UW IMAP, with the most compatible mailbox format.  This doesn&#8217;t scale well, for several users, or for one user with a lot of mail (that&#8217;d be me).  From what I&#8217;ve read, there is no email indexing, and only one process can lock the mail file at a time.  In squirrelmail, it&#8217;s currently taking minutes to load each page of email, and I&#8217;m going nuts (hah).<\/p>\n<p>So I&#8217;m going to install Cyrus IMAP, which is supposedly &#8220;hard to configure&#8221;.  Dang it&#8230;  to be continued&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many others have gone through the pain of having to replace\/upgrade Redhat&#8217;s out-of-the-box IMAP email handling, which goes for compatibility over performance. And now, sadly, it&#8217;s my turn. Redhat 9 ships with UW IMAP, with the most compatible mailbox format. This doesn&#8217;t scale well, for several users, or for one user with a lot of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-tricks-tips-tools"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9M11L-15","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":262,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions\/262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bitpost.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}