[Dovecot] POP3 with lot of messages

Matt lm7812 at gmail.com
Tue May 19 22:56:32 EEST 2009


Receiving the message list is slow.  I imaging because there are several
thousand messages in that list.  To bad it could not gzip the list first
like apache can do with certain files.

I am pretty sure nothing can be done about this rather then use IMAP
instead.

Matt


  On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 10:51 -0500, Matt wrote:
> > Running Dovecot 1.1.8.  Have several email accounts with thousands of
> > messages in them that are left on server.  Is there anyway to speed up
> POP3
> > access without switching to IMAP?  Doubt it but thought I would ask.
>
> What is slow in it? As long as you haven't disabled index files, Dovecot
> should handle that fast.
>
>


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