[Dovecot] dovecot 1.0-test69 io hangs

I've been testing test69 with pop3 (under Linux and with mbox). I began testing with a large inbox (11000 mails) and it seems the communication between dovecot and the mailclient (evolution) stalls after 1000-2000 messages transferred.

I've looked in to the (non-trivial) io functionality of dovecot. What I see is that io_loop_handler_run() in ioloop-poll.c does not signal any more data (and eventually the whole thing timeouts).

Evolution downloads the mailbox fine via qpopper.

I tried turning on rawlog: mail_executable = /usr/libexec/dovecot/rawlog /usr/libexec/dovecot/pop3

I cannot find any logfile.. I must be missing something.

Any help or ideas ?

Cheers, Jens

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