[Dovecot] lstats on all files in Maildir when opening an e-mail.

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Fri Feb 2 11:08:05 UTC 2007


On Fri, 2007-02-02 at 18:35 +0800, Tan Shao Yi wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running RC19 on a Solaris 10 SPARC box.
> 
> It seems that whenever I open an e-mail in any folder via IMAP, dovecot 
> appears to scan every other folder in the Maildir.
> 
> A truss reveals that it is lstat-ing every e-mail in every directory.
> 
> I'm sorry I am sending only a fragment of the truss, it's really too 
> long... but is this behaviour expected?

Are you using dirsize quota backend? That's the only reason I can think
of for this. dirsize backend really sucks with maildir.
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