Slow imap connection to local dovecot server

[Joseph Tam]

On Sun, 25 Mar 2018, Lothar Paltins wrote:

> But very often the login from thunderbird to the dovecot server takes a
> very long time, even if thunderbird and dovecot are running on the same
> machine.  It can take more than a minute until I can read a message.  I
> dont't have this problem with the remote imap servers of my mail
> providers.

Sounds vaguely like a file locking problem.

> Does anybody know, why this happens or how I could debug this issue?

Turn on verbose logging, then see if you can trigger the problem.  Also,
doveconf -n would help.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>