[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Rajesh M wrote:

>> Roundcube 0.3.1 seems to have a hard coded limit of 200 mails per page.

> it again took around 4-5 mins

I do not know nothing about Roundcube, therefore I wonder where the 5min 
delay come from:

a) Do you keep index files on Dovecot side?

b) Do you deliver / manipulate the mailbox via Dovecot only? E.g. do you 
use Dovecot deliver?

c) If you rawlog or sniff the connection and issue the same commands as 
roundcube to Dovecot via, say, telnet next morning, is the delay the same?
http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/Rawlog
http://wiki.dovecot.org/TestInstallation?highlight=%28telnet%29

a) and b) should avoid rereading of the mailbox.
c) is to ensure that Roundcube does not add the delay itself.

> the extra 1000 emails were to be added to the cache .. does dovecot go
> thru all the 170000 emails again to form the meta data ? or is there some
> cache expiry period ?

Usually no.

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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