Timo Sirainen wrote:
On 10.5.2011, at 22.45, Linda Walsh wrote:
I've noticed this before and wasn't sure of the problem -- sending large files from FF.
What is FF? Sorry, meant TB (Thunderbird, 2.x), FF=Firefox, BTW, braino-confusion.....
I tracked it down, and the problem is in dovecot when it is saving the mail to my 'Record' (Outbox)...
So when IMAP client is sending a message to Dovecot?
It's saving the file in tiny chunks....
Looking at a few, I see: 4148 bytes 2116 bytes 1604 bytes 692 bytes
Isn't that the client that is sending it in small pieces then? How did you measure those bytes? Using wireshark. It **could** be the client, but it's hard to see the client doing anything other sending doing a large scale 'save message' to the mailbox, but you're right, it could be a fault of the client, considering how poorly TB is written. It's gotten worse with TB 3.x though with performance there really bogging down my machine in terms of local disk-space consumed. As you may be aware, TB3.x ignores the entire premise of IMAP in storing messages on the server, trying to make copies of all messages, locally.
With my users running with roaming profiles, this easily adds over 1GB of locally cached mail to each profile that needs to be copied to and from a server each time a user logs in or out (creating huge lag times for login/logout).