[Dovecot] v1.1 status and benchmarks

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Thu Jul 12 10:27:42 EEST 2007


On 12.7.2007, at 10.22, Arkadiusz Miskiewicz wrote:

>> Although I'm guessing your "much more I/O" means that Dovecot reads
>> the message contents to calculate the messages' correct virtual size,
>> while tpop3d violates POP3 spec by returning physical message sizes.
>> Also Dovecot 1.0's deliver doesn't help with this, because it doesn't
>> write the virtual size to cache file.
>
> Is this improved in 1.1 so virtual size is stored there?

v1.1 stores the virtual size to the maildir filename (,W=1234) and  
for existing files it adds them to dovecot-uidlist. If only POP3 is  
used, the cache file isn't created at all. If IMAP is used then  
virtual size is stored also to the cache file.

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