SquirrelMail and huge server load

[torp]

Whenever I log in to SquirrelMail, the server load jumps, and it takes ages to access email. This happens for large mailboxes with >1000 emails, and small mailboxes with <30 emails. I actually installed eAccelerator purely to try to rectify the problem of huge memory overheads, resulting in httpd overloading with SquirrelMail.

Any suggestions?

[Icheb]

Squirrelmail uses Imap. The Imap daemon needs to load ALL mails into memory to do something. Squirrelmail calls this daemon a few times to load all stuff it uses.
So one of the possible solutions would be to look at Maildir instead of using the old Mailbox solution.

I however, do not have any experience with the new solutions.

[torp]

How can I use maildir. Is this one of the things included in Exim 4.6?

[jlasman]

Maildir has nothing to do with Exim.

Maildir on DA is provided by dovecot which works well.

But there have been some issues with the major mailbox conversion required, and there are required changes to exim.conf.

Search these forums for dovecot.

Jeff