dovecot - May 2006 - FSF - dovecot

Will dovecot always be open FREE source for all?

I am currently migrating my www.digipanel.com from Courier to dovecot as I
think courier is overly complicated and a pain in the arse to manage all those
files.

anyways, I have dovecot IMAP working with MySQL auth but reading the Maildir
each time takes up to 30 secs to complete.

ANy ideas why?  Maybe a dns resolve issue?  how can I fix..