Thanks Timo,
Temporarly would move the messages and keep a watch. Updating to mdbox is add to the list.
Thanks&Regards, Kavish Karkera
From: Timo Sirainen <tss@iki.fi> To: Kavish Karkera <kavish.karkera@yahoo.com> Cc: "dovecot@dovecot.org" <dovecot@dovecot.org> Sent: Friday, 2 August 2013 5:27 PM Subject: Re: [Dovecot] Maildir Synchronization warnings
On Fri, 2013-08-02 at 15:34 +0800, Kavish Karkera wrote:
Hi,
We are repeatedly getting these below warnings for some of our users, al though we have no complaints from them yet, we need to know why these warning occurs.
So it would be help full if some one explain these warning msg in detail. .. Aug 2 12:52:55 blade8 dovecot: imap(kavish.karkera@example.com): Warning: Maildir: Scanning /mail/v3store/example.com/kavish.karkera@example.com/Maildir/cur took 94 seconds (23191 readdir()s, 0 rename()s to cur/, why=0x1)
It means that the maildir INBOX is huge, and it takes a long time to access them with your available disk IO. Possibilities:
a) Move move of your mails away from INBOX.
b) Switch to different mailbox format that can handle large mailboxes, such as mdbox or sdbox.