[Dovecot] maildirsize quota counting locking account?

[Daniel Watts]

Timo Sirainen wrote:
> On 19.12.2007, at 13.42, Daniel Watts wrote:
> 
>> I've just straced a dovecot imap process and found one thread sitting 
>> there doing hundreds and hundreds of maildirsize updates as follows:
> 
> What Dovecot version? v1.0.8 fixed one bug that caused this.

1.0.7 - will update as soon as gentoo's portage includes 1.0.8..
hmmm though it seems to have skipped it and gone to 1.1 beta:

*  net-mail/dovecot
       Latest version available: 1.1_beta11
       Latest version installed: 1.0.7
       Size of files: 2,594 kB
       Homepage:      http://www.dovecot.org/
       Description:   An IMAP and POP3 server written with security 
primarily in mind
       License:       LGPL-2.1

Do you do the ebuilds yourself for gentoo? I think you should update the 
Description - makes it seem like dovecot is just about security and not 
performance when that isn't the case!

> Also it's of course quite pointless to even read maildirsize for each 
> FETCH. This has been fixed in v1.1..
> 
>>> read(0, "2838 UID fetch 1816 (UID RFC822."..., 2974) = 51
> ..
>>> read(0, "2839 UID fetch 1817 (UID RFC822."..., 2923) = 51
> 
> This shows that Thunderbird is sending a separate FETCH for each message 
> for some reason. Even without maildirsize updates it might be slow.
> 

Yeah no idea what thunderbird thinks it is doing. Often have to close 
the program and restart it (of course this is nothing to do with dovecot 
- i suspect tb's caching management).

Thanks timo,
Dan