[Dovecot] Errors when searching large folders

[Wouter Van Hemel]

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, Mike Jakubik wrote:

> I am getting errors from dovecot when trying to search, in large Maildir
> folders. The folder has 40454 messages and is 371MB in size. The email
> client is squirrelmail 1.4.3, running on FreeBSD-current. I've had this
> problem before, and i posted a message here. The author said he would fix
> this, but it seem the problem is still not resolved.
>
> This is the error i get:
>
> ---
> ERROR : Connection dropped by imap-server.
> Query: SEARCH CHARSET ISO-8859-1 ALL BODY {5} hello BODY {5} there
> ---
>
> At this point the HD led remain on for another 30 seconds or so.
>

Do you have any logs from dovecot?

> Thanks.
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