On Wed, 2006-05-10 at 10:20 -0500, Fran Fabrizio wrote:
We have a dovecot install that is working fine for everyone except one user, who complains that it takes a minute or longer to delete a single message from the INBOX to Trash. This is happening for him from multiple IMAP clients so it appears to be server-side.
Are you using mboxes? Has his Trash mbox grown huge? Is this Dovecot 0.99.x or 1.0beta?
I wanted to start up a test instance of dovecot alongside the production one and test there. So I copied dovecot.conf, put imap on port 10143, and started up the test server like this:
# strace -tt dovecot -F -c /etc/dovecottest.conf
You want to give -f option also for strace.
(I could not find the docs for -F but without it dovecot would quickly detatch into a daemon and I could no longer strace it... so is -F for putting dovecot in the foreground like I think? :-)
Yep.
- My screen just scrolled continuously with poll calls - does dovecot poll something every second even when it has no clients connected?
Yep.
- It appeared to interfere with the production install running alongside of it - as I could no longer authenticate to it or copy messages to my Sent folder when I sent something out through the production dovecot. I had to restart the production instance to get it to behave.
Change base_dir in dovecot.conf to something else.