[Dovecot] Slow bulk deleting

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Wed Aug 6 16:10:42 EEST 2003


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




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