This is my first post to this list/gmane newsgroup, so please be gentle with me.... :-)

Here's my situation: I have a user (the "main boss secretary") who uses MS Outlook 2007 as her email client. She has over 46,000 messages in her inbox, with nobody knows how many more in 75+ different folders & subfolders.

Surprisingly, her response time wasn't too terrible up until we had to reboot our mail server the other day (actually, restoring the entire server from a backup). Now it takes anywhere from 10 to 60 seconds for her to switch from 1 folder to another.

Details: the problem lays. Rebuild the .pst file, had Outlook re-index,

• Server is Debian running Postfix and Dovecot (both the current release). Using Maildir format stored in the user's ~/Maildir folder.

• User connects to server via Imaps. Connection is local using gigabit network (ie. it ain't the network).

• Yes, we did all the things on the Outlook side -thinking that is where

compacted the .pst file, etc.

So now I'm thinking that maybe I need to just wipe out all of the ~/Mailder/dovecot* files (including all those in sub-directories) and let it all reindex. Which begets 3 questions:

(1) will this help? (2) anyone have a shell script that will remove all those dovecot* files from the user's directory AND all the sub-directories? (3) Any other suggestions I might be missing?

-- Chris Barnes