[Dovecot] Thanks! Migration UWimap -> Dovecot report

Dillon lists at loveturtle.net
Sat Nov 25 03:31:03 UTC 2006


look at the pop3_uidl_format in dovecot.conf

Leroy van Logchem wrote:
> Best Dovecot devs,
>
> We moved from UW-imap&pop3 to Dovecot this morning (~500 accounts) and
> reduced our traffic from the home directory server to the imap server 
> bigtime:
>
> | 22 Nov|    0.1     0.8|    0.0     0.0|    0.4     0.5| 1550.6    
> 42.9| 1557.3    67.9|
> | 23 Nov|    0.3     1.0|    0.0     0.1|    0.4     0.6| 1331.8    
> 37.3| 1337.2    46.3|
> | 24 Nov|    0.0     0.4|    0.0     0.0|    0.2     0.2|  186.8     
> 8.8|  188.9     9.2|
>
> Yesterday and the day before we averaged 1.35 TB of NFS traffic for all
> the remote imap folders (mbox format) while today we only use 1/10th :)
>
> Also the lazy purge and writes are absolutly fast now, thanks!
>
> One question: Our pop3 users recieved all  mail while 'leave mail on 
> server'
> was enabled -it didnt delete it-. After one such run it's fine. Any 
> idea to
> improve a uw/ipop3d migration for the next time?
>
> <dovecot.conf of rc15>
> pop3_uidl_format = %08Xu%08Xv
> pop3_client_workarounds = outlook-no-nuls oe-ns-eoh
>



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