Using reiserfs and Maildir. I had about 2000 messages, and when I select about 200 of them and press delete, the client seems to hang (I waited about 4 minutes). Outlook Express would pop up a message every minute and say that it hadn't heard from the server in 60 seconds. Evolution would just hang.

If I then cancelled/killed the client and accessed the server again, the messages would be marked deleted and I could purge them without problems. I don't know IMAP protocol at all, but the log file seems I have an Outlook Express log file (500k) if that would help you at all.

Les

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 15:10, Timo Sirainen wrote:

On Wed, 2003-08-06 at 11:49, Leslie Viljoen wrote:

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I am finding Dovecot very slow to delete large numbers of messages. IS this a known problem?

Maildir or mbox? How many messages do you have in the mailbox? How many are you deleting? How slow is very slow?

I don't remember it having any problems.. Well, except if you have a huge maildir with ext2/ext3 filesystem that's going to be slow.