On Sat, 2005-01-08 at 14:56 -0600, Michael Joy wrote:
We've been running Dovecot for imap for quite some time and have had little trouble with it. However, we recently switched over to using dovecot for pop3 because of simplicity as well as security issues with the older UW based pop server.
Dovecot 0.99.x isn't very good or fast POP3 server. 1.0-tests are a _lot_ faster. 0.99.x actually locks/unlocks the mbox file separately for each mail that is read.
- The server is definitely fast enough to handle the large mail box.
- There's some serious incompatibility in Evolution/Dovecot causing for the 14.4 modem email download speeds over lan.
Look at the network traffic between Dovecot and Evolution. Does it pause somewhere for a long time?
We're running Dovecot 0.99.12 on Debian unstable, however 0.99.11 exhibited this behavior as well. If anyone has some hints, I'd greatly appreciate it. It's annoying having to wait 5-10 min to download mail in the morning when one gets into work ;)
It may be an authentication problem, Dovecot advertised AUTH=PLAIN but if client actually tried to use it it didn't work correctly. 0.99.13 fixed this. Maybe it helps.