[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

[Steffen Kaiser]

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On Wed, 23 Jun 2010, Rajesh M wrote:

>> 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.

> did the tests once again on this large email box

Your reply seems to answer a) as your conf does not contain INDEX=MEMORY, 
so I guess there are current index files. Can you verify there are?

What about b) and c)?

Do you have log entries like "UID inserted in the middle", "Invalid cache" 
or something? Is the mail storage located locally or remote / NFS / ... ?

Regards,

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Steffen Kaiser
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