[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 26.6.2010, at 0.57, Noel Butler wrote:

> As I mentioned earlier It doesnt with squirrelmail, I tried it on
> production and the I/O increased a bit, watching logging alone was
> giving me a 
> headache (no, not in debug mode either)..

How much is "a bit" that the I/O increased? Less than 10%?

> So I thought I'd try it on a dev box, in case the cache wasnt large
> enough, but nope, incidentally imap with evolution works as you indicate
> it should, but webmail, not a hope in ..... it is login -action logout
> constantly, imapproxy avoids all this crud, so it obviously does
> something differently, maybe you find that and incorporate it in
> dovecot :) that way all this login logout stuff is only seen in say,
> debug mod?

It still sounds like the only problem you have is the excessive log messages?.. Sure, Dovecot doesn't even try to get rid of those.