[Dovecot] POP3 with lot of messages

[Timo Sirainen]

On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 14:56 -0500, Matt wrote:
> Receiving the message list is slow.  I imaging because there are several
> thousand messages in that list.  

But is it slow because the actual downloading the list is slow, or
because it's using a lot of disk I/O? If it's the former then there's
nothing Dovecot can do.

> To bad it could not gzip the list first
> like apache can do with certain files.

If you use SSL/TLS it's possible to use compression if the client
supports it and your OpenSSL supports it. I don't really know how
commonly it's supported by clients or even OpenSSL.

> I am pretty sure nothing can be done about this rather then use IMAP
> instead.

Yeah, I'd guess so.

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