[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

[Seth Mattinen]

On 6/23/2010 12:27, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
> A.L.E.C put forth on 6/23/2010 6:51 AM:
>> On 23.06.2010 13:22, Rajesh M wrote:
>>
>>> did the tests once again on this large email box
>>
>> First of all, are you using one client app or many? Make sure it's not
>> the client issue. You should also enable some debug to see what commands
>> are sent to IMAP server and what is the response and what is response
>> time. For example, there's imap_debug option in Roundcube.
> 
> I think he's actually using Squirrelmail guys.  I previously mentioned
> performance I get with Roundcube+Dovecot+mbox strictly as a comparison.
> That's how RC sneaked into the thread.
> 


When using SquirrelMail, make sure these settings are 'true':

Allow server thread sort     : true
Allow server-side sorting    : true

Otherwise performance will suffer because it will do these things itself
rather than letting the server do them.

~Seth