[Dovecot] Search not working?

Timo Sirainen tss at iki.fi
Mon Mar 12 20:58:01 EET 2007


On 12.3.2007, at 18.29, Marc Perkel wrote:

> I switched for mbox to maildir last night and now searching folders  
> isn't working. Getting a timeout. Is there something I might have  
> forgot to configure?

There are no settings related to that. How large mailboxes do you  
have? It could simply be that maildir is slower to search than mbox  
because the OS needs to open/close a lot more files.

strace would show what IMAP process is doing: http://wiki.dovecot.org/ 
Debugging/ProcessTracing

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