On Mon, 2007-03-12 at 12:57 -0700, Marc Perkel wrote:
I switched for mbox to maildir last night and now searching folders isn't working. Getting a timeout. Is there something I might have forgot to configure?
There are no settings related to that. How large mailboxes do you have? It could simply be that maildir is slower to search than mbox because the OS needs to open/close a lot more files.
strace would show what IMAP process is doing: http://wiki.dovecot.org/Debugging/ProcessTracing
That may be it. Search works on small folders. But I need to search the big folders. What can I do to keep it from timing out? I expected it to be slower, but thought it would still work.
Searching is slow, there's really nothing currently that can be done in Dovecot's side to make it faster. In CVS HEAD there does exist support for full text search indexes which makes the search fast, but you probably don't want to use CVS HEAD yet.
I think your only option for now is to increase the timeout setting in your client, if there exists such.