[Dovecot] outlook 2007 very slow.

[Jerry]

On Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:50:39 -0700
Kui Zhang articulated:

> On Tue, Sep 27, 2011 at 11:21 AM, Charles Marcus
> <CMarcus at media-brokers.com> wrote:
> > On 2011-09-27 2:06 PM, Ed W <lists at wildgooses.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> On 20/09/2011 03:10, Kui Zhang wrote:
> >>>
> >>> thunderbird does not really work for us, due to amount of emails
> >>> per mailbox. It was hogging all the memory + cpu.
> >
> >> I think if you disable the new local indexing features in TB then
> >> it should start running fairly decently?
> >
> > Also - Outlook is by far much slower than Thunderbird in my
> > experience...
> >
> > I think if you disable the new local indexing features in TB then it
> > should start running fairly decently?
> 
> I had indexing disabled... that did not help much.
> 
> TB work better after I have these settings...
> 
> mail.imap.expunge_after_delete true
> mail.imap.expunge_option 2
> mail.server.default.autosync_offline_stores false
> mail.server.default.offline_download false
> mail.server.default.autosync_max_age_days 14
> 
> I think mail.imap.expunge_after_delete might have caused mdbox limit
> problem I had before... but not confirmed.
> 
> 
> >
> > Also - Outlook is by far much slower than Thunderbird in my
> > experience...
> >
> 
> Multiple people in the office report outlook is faster (when it
> works).

I have always found Outlook to be much faster than TB. In any case,
Outlook 2007 is an old version. I am using the 2010 version at work and
it is a much more polished application than the 2010 version and far
superior to TB.

-- 
Jerry ✌
Dovecot.user at seibercom.net

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