[PLUG] Re: Email server performance

[Wil Cooley]

On Fri, 2005-04-15 at 10:59 -0700, Robert Anderson wrote:

> Any ideas of how I could address the performance problems? Should I
> switch the users to pop3? Put a cap on mailbox size? Any help is
> appreciated.

Add more disks, get faster disks, or move the filesystems around to
distribute the load.  What is your storage subsystem like now?  I would
definitely recommend against switching them to POP3 if you're using
IMAP.  What IMAP server are you using?  Is this 180 concurrent users?

Wil
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