[Dovecot] imap memory footprint rather large

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2007-08-13 at 22:59 +0200, martin f krafft wrote:

> The way offlineimap reads may is by FETCHing metadata, then
> APPENDing new local mail, SEARCHing for the UIDs of each uploaded
> mail, and finally FETCHing new remote mail.

What exactly do you mean by FETCHing metadata? Something like ENVELOPE
or BODYSTRUCTURE? And this is fetched for all messages instead of just
new ones? That could easily explain why cache is so large.

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