Re: [Dovecot] Imap new messages listing is very slow with big meilbox - why?

On Sat, 2007-10-06 at 10:30 +0300, Mart Pirita wrote:

So I can log in and auth quick, I see that Inbox contains 30 000 messages but then new messages listing (sorting the new messages from whole messages without actual headers download) takes forever.

Is this normal? How to speed it up? Is this email client or Dovecot issue?

I think that's what you should find out first. :) Check what commands the client sends to Dovecot (e.g. rawlog, http://dovecot.org/bugreport.html#sniffing). Also you can check with strace what's taking most of the time:

strace -tt -p <imap process pid>