[Dovecot] Large IMAP operations tend to timeout and cause problems?

[Jon]

Hi,

I'm having the same problem.

When you say Memory indexes, what is that?

Best Regards -Jon

Jon Essen-Möller
+46 8 708 793333



Cor Bosman said the following on 2005-10-20 11:06:
> Hi, 
>
>   
>> For example if I select 400 messages, mark them deleted and use "purge 
>> command" in Thunderbird (to actually delete them) TB starts to do 
>> something and runs and runs and runs....Then I get script timed out 
>> errror and I have to restart TB. That never happened with Courier-Imap.
>> Same thing happens for example moving 1000msgs to another folder or 
>> something like that.
>>
>> Another thing is still that from time to time dovecot indexes get 
>> corrupted and users can't access some folders. Then I have to delete 
>> dovecot* in that Maildir folder and it works again.
>>     
>
> Unfortunately no solution, but just want to say we see some of these problems
> also. There definately still are index corruption bugs, causing different
> types of problems. We have recently started using memory indexes to see if
> it really is dovecot, and all problems with customers went away. Ofcourse
> this isnt a definate solution, we really want to have normal indexes working
> again :) It may be related to accessing it at the same time from different
> clients. 
>
> I havent seen any problems recently with large mailboxes, but I have in the
> past so i wouldnt be surprised if there are still issues there. 
>
>