On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 20:47, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
I use the OS X Mail.app client. I tested it with a test account with no problems, but trying to use it with my usual mail folders (~1.3GB; 120MB in the inbox) it's not working at all.
It seems like dovecot keeps copying the full inbox into a temp file in mail/.imap/INBOX. It did it at least 10 times while I was watching without any noticable progress doing anything at all in Mail.app.
That sounds like Mail.app is creating new custom flags. What does X-IMAPbase header look like in the first mail?
Anyway, rewriting isn't too well optimized yet. It's a bit better in CVS now and I think I could make it a bit more better for the next release (which might be good enough for most), but "optimal" rewriting requires a bit larger changes.
I tried stopping new mail deliveries to the inbox while I testing, but it didn't seem to make a difference.
New mails shouldn't require rewriting, especially the whole file.