[Dovecot] Improving interaction/performance with Mail.app?

[Alan Schmitt]

On 1 juil. 06, at 19:51, Timo Sirainen wrote:

> On Sat, 2006-07-01 at 09:51 +0200, Alan Schmitt wrote:
>> Well, it seems that Mail.app copies or deletes messages one at a
>> time, and sometimes wait for one minute between two messages. When
>> this happens, going to another mailbox (to read messages, for
>> instance) takes forever, and coming back to the mailbox where the
>> messages were deleted shows them, until they get deleted on the
>> server. I don't really know how to explain it differently (which is
>> probably part of the problem as well ;-) ).
>
> I guess by copying you mean within the server, and not eg. copying a
> local message to server?

Yes, everything is always stored on the server.

> What OS are you using in server side? And what filesystem?

Mac OS X.4.7, with HFS+ as files system.

> If Linux, you could see what the server is doing by:
>
> strace -tt -o log -p <imap process pid>
>
> Then start the copying and see which part of it takes the longest.

I guess I could use Shark for this, but I don't know how to use it.

Alan

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