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.
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
(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? :-)
I noticed two things when I did this:
My screen just scrolled continuously with poll calls - does dovecot poll something every second even when it has no clients connected?
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.
So my questions are whether all that polling output is normal and also, is my testing method really interfering with the production server, and if so, how to avoid that?
Thanks, Fran
-- Fran Fabrizio Senior Systems Analyst Department of Computer and Information Sciences University of Alabama at Birmingham http://www.cis.uab.edu/ 205.934.0653