[Dovecot] 1.2.11, mbox, new mail

Stan Hoeppner stan at hardwarefreak.com
Fri May 28 04:03:19 EEST 2010


Charles Marcus put forth on 5/27/2010 7:22 AM:
> On 2010-05-27 1:03 AM, Stan Hoeppner wrote:
>> With 1.2.11 and mbox storage, the delay time in pulling new mail 
>> headers to the client from imap folders seems to be directly
>> proportional to mailbox size, regardless of the number of new
>> messages. At present, if the mailbox is large, pulling new headers is
>> rather painfully slow.
>>
>> Is this expected behavior? Especially given that the client already 
>> has all the "old" mails in the folder cached, and thus wouldn't be
>> asking for them?
>>
>> Is there a setting(s) I can change to optimize/fix this?
> 
> Stan, I think you're the only one experiencing this, otherwise there
> would be a lot more noise on this list about it...

Possibly I'm the only one using mbox storage with 13k+ emails per folder?

> At least, I'm not, with 1.2.11 and TB3...
> 
> Did you ever follow the TB specific troubleshooting steps IU pointed you
> to to troubleshoot the TB connections, to see what it is doing?

Yes, I did, and I mentioned so in a previous post.  I was unable to identify
or correct the TBird problem, so I switched to LDA and sieve, which solved the
issue for the most part.

See my follow on post replying to Timo for further information.

-- 
Stan




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