[Gllug] thunderbird exchange and additional mailboxes

[Bruce Richardson]

On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 08:22:48AM +0000, Russell wrote:
> ---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
> From: Alan Peery <peery at io.com> on Mon, 24 Jan 2005 17:43:11 +0000
> 
> >While we're (sort of) on the topic, anyone had any success with pointing 
> >squirrelmail at the IMAP port on MS Exchange 2000?  It started, but was 
> >so miserably slow as to be unusable...
> 
> I thought Exchange 2000's IMAP was really slow too - I was using
> Thunderbird to move email out of Exchange. Maybe it is just that -
> Exchange's IMAP support is slow as molasses (Exchange was running on a
> dual P3 1GHz w/1.5G RAM).

This would be normal for Exchange, which is a resource hog.  Even on
Windows, there are mail applications (e.g. Communigate Pro) which can
serve many more users for less overhead.

In addition, SquirrelMail is not always the nippiest of IMAP clients.
The current branch does have header caching but the performance benefits
are variable.  I have strong doubts about the potential for optimising
Squirrel - much of the code is really horrible.

As a side note: it seems to be an increasingly common default for mail
clients to set a Reply-To header including both the list and the sender.
Please try and correct this if you realise your client is doing it.

-- 
Bruce

I object to intellect without discipline.  I object to power without
constructive purpose. -- Spock
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