Hi Stan,
On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
Chris Wilson put forth on 3/9/2011 10:02 AM:
I think it would be a good idea for me to move from mbox to mdbox, as I have 57,000 messages in my inbox, and clients hang for a minute whenever they request a CHECK, or Dovecot feels the need to run one itself.
Why do you believe switching to mdbox will fix this problem?
Because CHECK takes forever, I can understand why it's necessary on mbox files, I don't see that it should be necessary on an mdbox store, and so I'm hoping that mdbox will be much faster.
If you have 57k messages in your INBOX as you say, then you have a much bigger problem to solve than your choice of mailbox format.
Well forgive me for wanting to be easily able to find any email I received in the last year from Pine (which makes switching folders a little painful).
Seriously, this is 2011, it shouldn't be impossible to index and randomly access 60,000 records containing a few GB of data in reasonable time.
Cheers, Chris.
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