[Dovecot] More efficient Deleting of a whole folder (or Purging Trash)

[Gabriel Millerd]

On 1/30/08, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
>
>
> Just get a small shell script to run `touch ${rand_file}` 35,000 times
> and  time it.  Then drop into your shell and do rm -rf on the folder
> (for bonus marks you could purge the disk cache before doing this).
> This gives you a benchmark on your hardware separately to what dovecot
> offers.  Take that number and lets work from there...  Shouldn't take
> too long to do something like this?
>

Plus indexing work (or quota ... ewww), I wouldn't know if Dovecot
updates and index after every action or what have you. I think Unix
picks up most of the resource juggle here

Off topic, in the end Dovecot is insanely fast, especially with the
LDA to write to indexes on the delivery side and using the custom file
name hints for pop3 and what have you. If the index is not known and
imap is out of the blue told to Examine() and Delete(...) and
Expunge() there might be a significant difference.

Making a perl script to insert 35k emails using dovecot deliver
doesn't impact my under resourced machines and I work with
spam/(false|ham|queue) system with mail::imapclient automation and the
script flies through thousands of messages on the hour without notice.

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Gabriel Millerd