[Dovecot] dovecot evaluation on a 30 gb mailbox

[Timo Sirainen]

On 20.6.2010, at 3.33, Rajesh M wrote:

> 3) next i changed squirrelmail display preference to list 500 mails per page
> and then clicked on inbox ... expecting dovecot to take atleast around 1-2
> mins to show the mails
> 
> ... the mails were displayed in just 8 seconds .. awesome performance

Fetching metadata for 500 messages took 8 seconds? Still sounds slow. Although maybe it's because of maildir. I'm anyway not happy until Dovecot can open a mailbox with millions of messages and access them in nearly constant time (few milliseconds, with SSD).