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06/04/2006, 19h52

On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, sursum.corda@free.fr wrote:
> I would like to use IMAP as a back-end for a bulletin board CGI.
> Is it scalable? Can IMAP handle thousands of posts?
> I will use the "THREAD" extension also.
> What about perfos?

Sites use IMAP today to do this, with tens of thousands of messages in a
single mailbox. An in-progress extension to UW IMAP scales to hundreds of
thousands of messages.

The issue is not the protocol. It's the combination of the selection of
software, hardware, and overall system architecture. You can not look at
any one of these three things without considering the other two.

-- Mark --

http://panda.com/mrc
Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.

06/04/2006, 19h52	#2
Mark Crispin Messages: n/a Hébergeur:	Re: bulletin board with imap On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, sursum.corda@free.fr wrote: > I would like to use IMAP as a back-end for a bulletin board CGI. > Is it scalable? Can IMAP handle thousands of posts? > I will use the "THREAD" extension also. > What about perfos? Sites use IMAP today to do this, with tens of thousands of messages in a single mailbox. An in-progress extension to UW IMAP scales to hundreds of thousands of messages. The issue is not the protocol. It's the combination of the selection of software, hardware, and overall system architecture. You can not look at any one of these three things without considering the other two. -- Mark -- http://panda.com/mrc Democracy is two wolves and a sheep deciding what to eat for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed sheep contesting the vote.