Re: Gmail Down?

[Tony Finch <dot () dotat at>]

On Thu, 24 Sep 2009, Paul Vixie wrote:
> i recently explored webmail for my family and found "prayer", which is a
> pure C application (no php, no perl) built on the uw-imap c-client library.
> it's blindingly fast even for thousands of huge mailboxes stored in MH
> format.  anyone who was using "the cloud" because they couldn't stand the
> poor performance of the apache-based webmail systems should take a look.

We have about 41,000 registered users of which about 25,000 log in to
webmail in a busy week (about 850,000 logins per week, 6 or 7 million HTTP
requests per day). We run Prayer on a single PC with 8GB RAM and one dual
code 2GHz Xeon CPU. Mailboxes live on separate Cyrus IMAP servers.

Tony.
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