13 Mar
2007
13 Mar
'07
3:11 p.m.
- POP3 users who keep the mails stored in server. POP3 needs to get a list of all the mails' virtual sizes, which requires reading all the mails' contents. This could be avoided by adding ,W=<size> to the maildir filenames (http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat/Maildir), although you can't do that for existing mails without causing their UIDs to change.
The wiki doesn't explain how to add the W=<size> to the file names, the conf refers to mail_cache_fields = size.virtual size.physical Having set that on a test server/pop account, deleted the index and UID file and logged in, I don't see any size details in either the filenames or the UID list.
It's not clear if the mail_cache_fields are added to both the file names and index cache or what?
John