> uw-imapd is known to be dog slow when it comes to large mboxes. There > are too many reports about it causing much CPU occupation when > processing (high loads then). I encourage you to migrate to a > Cyrus-IMAPd (coming with FC2 and FC3) - runs impressively fast even on > my very old and weak AMD K6-3 450 MHz, handling 1,5 GB mail -, keeping > Sendmail. I can not say how well SquirrelMail as a webmailer is > performing. That seems to be the concensus. How do you do user authentication with Cyrus, can I interface to pam? I don’t want the users to have to have two passwords to change. That can improve webmail speed a lot. As > SquirrelMail is PHP written I recommend using the Turck MMCache which > improves the speed of PHP applications a lot. Maybe try as an > alternate > to SquirrelMail the Horde framework (www.horde.org). It runs very well > for me and there are very large mail environments were it proofed it's > power. The web interface is not the problem, it is IMAP that is very slow. > > We also need more groupware type features such as file > sharing, messaging > > and calendaring. I am looking at Binari, Groupwise, Surgemail, and > > opengroupware which would involve more work to implement for me. > > OpenGroupware is IMHO the only free application in your list. If costs > play a role and you are able to implement and customize it to > your need, > then it is certainly the tool of choice. > Cost is not a problem, provided it is reasonable. I can budget $1,000 for a 35 user solution that gives me speed and ease of use with groupware features. I would love to implement a complete groupware solution such as groupwise, but I don’t know enough about the iptfalls, advantages, etc and reading the spiels from the vendors just gives me a headache. It’s a shame no-one will tell you what you want to know without the stream of verbiage promising eternal happiness if you buy from them. Chris -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.289 / Virus Database: 265.4.5 - Release Date: 12/3/2004
