squirrelmail performance

[John Seth]

I'm using SM 1.2.11 at the moment, and just installed the php_accelerator,
and the imap proxy (from the link provided), and all I can say is "wow!". 
The php_accelerator works great and has dramatically increased my
webservers performance.

Secondly, I'm trying to get my head admin to open up imap to one server (a
separate webmail server), but his main rebuttal each time is the # of
connections that IMAP makes.  I've got the imap proxy on my webmail
system, along with php_accelerator, and told the proxy to connect to my
own system... and it too, flies.

Slowly, I may be inching toward the removal of an an archaic buggy
VisualMail 3.0, using POP3, to SquirrelMail.  However, I too have tried SM
1.4.0, and have had issues with it.  I'll stick with the 1.2 series as
well, for a little while at least.

All in all, thanks for the link... you've made my life happier for at
least one day.

   - Tony


> from playing with 1.4.0 over the last day or so i'm not happy with it,
> i'd stick with the 1.2.x series until 1.4.x becomes more mature.
>
> i have the php accelerator loaded on another machine and it diffinetly
> kicks up the php performance. it simply drops in and works, no need to
> recompile php or apache, just add a line to the php.ini that points to
> the library and reload apache. i started using it in conjunction with
> the imap proxy with an squirrel 1.2.4 & 8 but it was hanging up to i
> elimated it. now that i've been using 1.2.11 with the proxy pretty much
> all day and i'm happy with the results i'll turn it back on.
>
>
> Justin Bennett wrote:
>> Darin Perusich wrote:
>>
>>> hello,
>>>
>>> i know that a number of people on the list are using squirrelmail as
>>> a  mail client and the project just released some ways to enhance the
>>>  preformance of squirrel. check out
>>> http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/SquirrelMailPerformance for
>>> the  complete details.
>>>
>>> i've been playing with the imap proxy since yesterday morning and i'm
>>>  rather impressed with what i'm seeing, is really really fast
>>> depending  on the version of squirrel you're using. it works best on
>>> my test  system (solaris8, php4.1.2, apache1.2.20) with 1.2.11 and
>>> well with  1.2.4. when using with 1.2.8 and 1.4.0 it likes to hang
>>> when going  into mailboxes (random of course) and doesn't want to
>>> come back to  life. i'm not sure exactly what is causing the hang up,
>>> it's not the  proxy though, i can beat on it with netscape and it's
>>> fine.
>>>
>> Ok I'll check it out, What do you think of 1.4.0? I loaded it
>> yesterday,  It seems flakey. I can't got some of the plugins to work,
>> even the ones  that released new versions for 1.4.0. The message
>> higlighting doesn't  seem to work either. Oh well, I'll prob just
>> scrap it until a few  releases down the road, and all the plugins
>> catch up.
>>
>> Justin
>>
>> --
>> Justin Bennett
>> Network Administrator
>> RHCE (Redhat Certified Linux Engineer)
>> Dynabrade, Inc.
>> 8989 Sheridan Dr.
>> Clarence, NY 14031
>>
>
> --
> Darin Perusich
> Unix Systems Administrator
> Cognigen Corp.
> darinper at cognigencorp.com