Hi everyone, I have a client I've been trying to talk into switching from courier to dovecot, but the owner of the company wants me to set up two different accounts in Thunderbird (I finally got him switched to that from outlook express), one accessing his account through courier, and one through dovecot, so he can compare the speed... Is this even possible? I've never tried it before, so before I spend a lot of time, I want to know if I'd be wasting it (my time)... Thanks, -- Best regards, Charles
Charles Marcus wrote:> Hi everyone, > > I have a client I've been trying to talk into switching from courier to > dovecot, but the owner of the company wants me to set up two different > accounts in Thunderbird (I finally got him switched to that from outlook > express), one accessing his account through courier, and one through > dovecot, so he can compare the speed... > > Is this even possible? I've never tried it before, so before I spend a > lot of time, I want to know if I'd be wasting it (my time)...Yes, it's possible. You just have to set the 2 servers up on separate ports and make sure the correct ports are set in Thunderbird. I'm not sure what would happen with dovecot's index files but most likely if courier does something goofy they will just get rebuilt. Jonathan
Am Sonntag, 29. April 2007 schrieb Charles Marcus:> outlook express), one accessing his account through courier, and one > through dovecot, so he can compare the speed...You should tell your client that continuously switching between accunts to perform some operation and thus compare it will slow down Dovecot a lot, as it needs to update its indexes which are osboleted by Courier all the time. Doing a whole batch of operations with each server before trying the same with the other server for comparison purposes will probably reflect reality much closer. Greetings, Gunter -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: not available URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20070501/77613082/attachment.bin>
Gunter Ohrner wrote:> Am Sonntag, 29. April 2007 schrieb Charles Marcus: >> outlook express), one accessing his account through courier, and one >> through dovecot, so he can compare the speed... > > Doing a whole batch of operations with each server before trying the same > with the other server for comparison purposes will probably reflect > reality much closer.I posted some ad hoc numbers to the list back in February, one machine Courier and the other Dovecot using Squirrelmail as the frontend. http://dovecot.org/list/dovecot/2007-February/019560.html Now that the server ("Server B") is in production with 1.0.0, the users are seeing fantastic speed gains. Even just emptying the trash feels a whole lot snappier than ever... -te -- Troy Engel | Systems Engineer Fluid, Inc | http://www.fluid.com
> You should tell your client that continuously switching between accunts to > perform some operation and thus compare it will slow down Dovecot a lot, > as it needs to update its indexes which are osboleted by Courier all the > time.>> Doing a whole batch of operations with each server before trying the same > with the other server for comparison purposes will probably reflect > reality much closer.But of course... -- Best regards, Charles