Timo Sirainen wrote:

On 19.12.2007, at 13.42, Daniel Watts wrote:

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I've just straced a dovecot imap process and found one thread sitting there doing hundreds and hundreds of maildirsize updates as follows:

What Dovecot version? v1.0.8 fixed one bug that caused this.

1.0.7 - will update as soon as gentoo's portage includes 1.0.8.. hmmm though it seems to have skipped it and gone to 1.1 beta:

• net-mail/dovecot Latest version available: 1.1_beta11 Latest version installed: 1.0.7 Size of files: 2,594 kB Homepage: http://www.dovecot.org/ Description: An IMAP and POP3 server written with security primarily in mind License: LGPL-2.1

Do you do the ebuilds yourself for gentoo? I think you should update the Description - makes it seem like dovecot is just about security and not performance when that isn't the case!

Also it's of course quite pointless to even read maildirsize for each FETCH. This has been fixed in v1.1..

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read(0, "2838 UID fetch 1816 (UID RFC822."..., 2974) = 51 .. read(0, "2839 UID fetch 1817 (UID RFC822."..., 2923) = 51

This shows that Thunderbird is sending a separate FETCH for each message for some reason. Even without maildirsize updates it might be slow.

Yeah no idea what thunderbird thinks it is doing. Often have to close the program and restart it (of course this is nothing to do with dovecot

• i suspect tb's caching management).

Thanks timo, Dan

Charles Marcus wrote:

On 12/19/2007, Daniel Watts (d@nielwatts.com) wrote:

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Yeah no idea what thunderbird thinks it is doing. Often have to close the program and restart it (of course this is nothing to do with dovecot - i suspect tb's caching management).

What platform? I use TBird on Windows and it works very well for me, as long as I restart it (TBird, not the computer) once every day or two...

Are you setting any folders to offline mode?

Hi Charles,

Just using TBird on Windows. Not set anything to use offline mode. Most common misbehaviour types are:

1. Thunderbird thinks that it has already downloaded a message so it doesn't try. You click on a message, it looks like it is downloading, finishes and gives a black message. Click off to another message and then back again and it shows that blank message with no attempt to check the IMAP server.

2. Thunderbird confuses messages. You're reading one message and a new one arrives. You click on the new one and it shows the body you were reading as the body of the new message. Clicking off it and then back again maintains this.

Restarting thunderbird usually fixes the problem. As does 'rebuild index' for that particular folder.

Thunderbird version is latest: 2.0.0.9

Happy to give as much info as you like but probably should take to email as this is a Dovecot list =)

Best wishes, Daniel