Hi,
On 05/04/15 10:59, Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 28 Apr 2015, at 23:49, Nagy, Attila <bra@fsn.hu> wrote:
Hi,
imapc does a lot of UID FETCH $UID (BODY.PEEK[]), which is nice, because it works even with the dumbest IMAP server, altough it really kills performance, especially on high latency lines.
I wonder: if IMAP servers can effectively handle boundless fetches (like a list with all wanted UIDs, or simply 1:* if all are needed), do you see this as a good addition to develop? Set mail_prefetch_count = 10 or 100 or something and it'll do larger FETCHes. The higher the value, the more memory/disk space is used for storing the received mails.
I'm aware of that, but it doesn't, or at least not always. For example Thunderbird issues this: 13 UID fetch 333574:333601,333630:333801 (UID RFC822.SIZE FLAGS BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (From To Cc Bcc Subject Date Message-ID Priority X-Priority References Newsgroups In-Reply-To Content-Type Reply-To)]) Dovecot does this to the IMAP backend 18 UID FETCH 333574 (BODY.PEEK[]) 19 UID FETCH 333575 (BODY.PEEK[]) 20 UID FETCH 333576 (BODY.PEEK[]) 21 UID FETCH 333577 (BODY.PEEK[]) And so on.
I have mail_prefetch_count set to 100: # doveconf -n | grep prefet mail_prefetch_count = 100