From: "andrew cooke" <andrew@...>
Date: Mon, 16 Apr 2007 22:53:19 -0400 (CLT)
With no apparent fix for this problem - https://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=253437 - and "out of memory" errors in SquirrelMail (when PHP has 256MB available!), and after reading the comments here - http://squirrelmail.org/wiki/LowMemoryProblem - I decided to switch from Courier to DoveCot. Despite having a world of pain last time I tried this, it was a piece of cake. All I did was: - stop the getmail cron jobs downloading email via pop from various places - stop courier - logout of squirrelmail - stop apache - uninstall courier, install dovecot (via Yast) - tarball my maildir just in case - delete every file from the maildir (and child directories - use find) whose name begins with "courier" or "dovecot" (the latter from my previous attempt to change over). - run squirrelmail's config and follw the instructions at http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelMailAndDovecotIMAP (it's not completely clear, but you can specify dovecot as the imap server name). - restart apache - look at http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/configtest.php - start dovecot - look at http://localhost/squirrelmail/src/configtest.php and see the imap server - login to squirrelmail - subscribe to folders (note - if i tried to select all 200 or so folders at once, this failed, but subscribing in groups of 10 or so was ok). - restart getmail cron jobs It is noticeably faster, there's no famd error messages in my mail log, I haven't (yet) seen the memory errors, and there was no further config needed. Seems like a good deal. Andrew