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

[Timo Sirainen]

On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 19:59 +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> On 1 juil. 06, at 19:51, Timo Sirainen wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 09:51 +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
> >> Well, it seems that Mail.app copies or deletes messages one at a
> >> time, and sometimes wait for one minute between two messages. When
> >> this happens, going to another mailbox (to read messages, for
> >> instance) takes forever, and coming back to the mailbox where the
> >> messages were deleted shows them, until they get deleted on the
> >> server. I don't really know how to explain it differently (which is
> >> probably part of the problem as well ;-) ).
> >
> > I guess by copying you mean within the server, and not eg. copying a
> > local message to server?
> 
> Yes, everything is always stored on the server.
> 
> > What OS are you using in server side? And what filesystem?
> 
> Mac OS X.4.7, with HFS+ as files system.

I think I've heard before that Dovecot doesn't behave too great with
OSX..

> > If Linux, you could see what the server is doing by:
> >
> > strace -tt -o log -p <imap process pid>
> >
> > Then start the copying and see which part of it takes the longest.
> 
> I guess I could use Shark for this, but I don't know how to use it.

Hmm. I guess it's time to put this in wiki:

http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing
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