- Stewart Dean <sdean@bard.edu>:
I now have Dovecot in production and things are apparently trouble-free. The one known problem is that initial client inbox load can take 30 seconds - 2 minutes. For instance:
Initial? Initial after what? I guess the index is being rebuilt, cold that be?
'I got fed up waiting and went and got coffee'...this with a 3MB mbox inbox...and my mail server is a substantial machine consuming 25% CPU just for this person's IMAP session.
Normal.
I realize that a certain amount of performance piggishness is inevitable with large mbox inboxes (the prize goes to the user with a 500MB inbox).
Eventually, I plan to move to maildir format, but for now I'm here. Also, we have legacy requirement for procmail, so I can't currently use deliver.Questions:
- Any tuning I can do to improve this?
Use deliver to rebuild the index wehenever a mail is delivered.
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