On 17.3.2005, at 19:18, Gabriel Granger wrote:
The users get the "loading message" or "opening messages" and the egg timer goes round but never completes. I managed to clear the problem by getting the user to close their email client and then kill their IMAP processes on the server, when the user logs in again the client responds correctly.
You mean just closing the email client didn't kill the imap process on server? Was it using any CPU?
Is there something I'm doing wrong with the configuration of dovecot? would using MailDir help, I dont want to migrate from Mailbox unless this change will make things better, I understand their are benefits from using MailDir, but I dont know if I will continue to see the same problems if I migrate.
How large are your largest mailboxes? Maildir probably won't help anyway with these problems.
Any help or advise would be great, I should add that everyone is connecting to the server over SSL
But you didn't say what Dovecot version you were using. Most importantly, 0.99.x or 1.0-stable/test?