[Dovecot] 1.0-test21

Moe Wibble t1lt at bk.ru
Mon Jun 21 18:56:46 EEST 2004


On Mon, Jun 21, 2004 at 05:52:09PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> http://dovecot.org/test/
> 
> Should work again with maildir.
> 
>  - Some bugfixes to indexes (possibly fixing the still persisting 
> maildir sync errrors?)

Ah, gotta try that, but...

>  - Enabled cache file again. If client asks about something that can be 
> cached for future, it's done. There's currently no smart logic about 
> when not to do it or when to cache more than was asked for future use. 
> Currently nothing is ever deleted from cache. Currently it's disabled 
> if mmap_disable = yes.

...does that mean the cache-file will grow indefinitely?

>  - Removed UIDPLUS extension after all. It needs more thinking with 
> maildir, because for performance reasons new messages are given UIDs 
> once at the end transaction rather than separately for each one. So, 
> the UID would have to be 0 temporarily until transaction is committed. 
> But the current API make the new messages visible without syncing, and 
> then the sequences don't match anymore and we can't get the UIDs. So, 
> this one needs thinking, mostly from API designing point of view.

Actually I find the current maildir-performance quite amazing when compared
to courier or bincimap.  The only other imapd that can hold a candle to
dovecot (at least according to my little-bit-out-dated and
not-so-representative personal benchmarks) appears to be cyrus.

Anyways, as mentioned before, I'm still looking forward to the next
Maildir-stable version. :-)


regards




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