dovecot - Feb 2011 - Running dovecot on embedded device?

Hi,

I'm considering buying a QNAP TS-212 NAS and I wonder if this device is
powerful
enough to run dovecot too (there is a pre-built dovecot package available from 
QNAP)? The main goal would be that my mail is stored centralized on the NAS, 
where I can access it from multiple systems without ending up with mail 
scattered over each system (which is exactly what is happening now due to the 
fact that my isp offers only POP3). There will only be a few users (e.g. family 
members), and incomming mail will be fetched from the isp mailbox.

The specs of the QNAP TS-212 are:

  * ARM Marvell Kirkwood 1.2GHz CPU
  * 256MB DDRII RAM

Is this sufficient to run dovecot, and will the performance be acceptable?
I'm
not expecting something lightning fast, but something that is acceptable.

Jef

On 20/02/11 09:22, Jef Driesen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I'm considering buying a QNAP TS-212 NAS and I wonder if this device is
> powerful enough to run dovecot too (there is a pre-built dovecot package
> available from QNAP)? The main goal would be that my mail is stored
> centralized on the NAS, where I can access it from multiple systems
> without ending up with mail scattered over each system (which is exactly
> what is happening now due to the fact that my isp offers only POP3).
> There will only be a few users (e.g. family members), and incomming mail
> will be fetched from the isp mailbox.
>
> The specs of the QNAP TS-212 are:
>
> * ARM Marvell Kirkwood 1.2GHz CPU
> * 256MB DDRII RAM
Heh... your idea of an "embedded" device clearly differs from mine.

I'm currently running Dovecot on a 450MHz UltraSPARC-IIi for a company 
of about 25 people.

The QNAP (nice toys, aren't they?) has plenty of CPU, and I don't see it
running out of RAM, either.
> Is this sufficient to run dovecot, and will the performance be
> acceptable? I'm not expecting something lightning fast, but something
> that is acceptable.
I think it should do fine.

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Curtis Maloney