[Dovecot] Improving interaction/performance with Mail.app?

[Chris Cappuccio]

out of curiousity, how do you know it's mail.app?
have you tested your imap server with other clients?
maybe your server has problems..... 

the only things you can tweak in dovecot are the client workarounds,
and turning on/off indexing, which i assume you have on

maybe you could explain the problems in more detail?

Alan Schmitt [alan.schmitt at polytechnique.org] wrote:
> On 30 juin 06, at 09:48, Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> >On Friday 30 Jun 2006 08:26, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> >>
> >>I'm using dovecot as my IMAP server just for me, and I access it from
> >>three machines, all using Apple Mail.app. Unfortunately the
> >>performance is really bad, especially when deleting or copying a lot
> >>of messages. I know this is the fault of Mail.app, whose IMAP support
> >>leaves a lot to desire, but I was wondering if there could be some
> >>dovecot configuration tricks that make the interaction smoother.
> >
> >Without any information on how the system is configured my crystal  
> >ball
> >suggests maybe you are using mbox format rather than maildir on  
> >folders with
> >lots of messages.
> >
> >If crystal ball is broken, please supply more info to allow me to  
> >get it
> >fixed.
> 
> Thanks for the offer to help ;-)
> 
> I'm using dovecot 1.0rc1 using maildir format (mail gets in the  
> machine by fetchmail -> postfix -> procmail). Mail.app is the one  
> that comes with 10.4.7, which I just upgraded. I always access mail  
> locally, either because I'm using the machine where the server is, or  
> because I have a ssh tunnel to this machine.
> 
> I don't really know what kind of other information is relevant, so  
> don't hesitate to ask.
> 
> Thanks again,
> 
> Alan
> 
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> 
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