Hi There,
I've written to the list several times regarding this
issue.. Search for something like UW IMAP slow
performace,etc..
The problem is that UW-IMAP by default uses mbox
format which is one big file for all messages. To
count messages or to even find out how many are
new/old, it has to open
> William Mussatto wrote:
>> I'm not sure why sendmail would be the issue. Its more likely the
>> program which handles IMAP (e.g., uw-imapd, courier) that is the
>> issue. In the case of uw-imapd with the standard 'mailbox' set up,
>> the imapd program must read and parse the entire file which c
> But, from what you say, is there an alternative to imapd that will not
> read the entire mailbox to find the last 15?
You are probably using the "mbox" format to store your mail. This puts
all the messages for a folder into one file. So, to get the last 15
messages, it has to read in the entir
Scott Carr wrote:
> Just to through this out. I ran into this type of problem as well. It
> turned out to be squirrelmail filters that I had setup. I turned them
> off, and things go alot faster.
I am not using Squirrelmail filters - only server-side filters (procmail).
Regards,
Somik
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William Mussatto wrote:
> I'm not sure why sendmail would be the issue. Its more likely the program
> which handles IMAP (e.g., uw-imapd, courier) that is the issue. In the
> case of uw-imapd with the standard 'mailbox' set up, the imapd program
> must read and parse the entire file which contain
>> Hi,
>> After scanning "large mailbox" messages on this list, I've not been
>> really clear about why it should happen with Sendmail.. Hence the
>> question - we always manage to get thru large mailboxes but only
>> after several minutes! There are only 4 users of the system - so I
>> don't t
> Hi,
> After scanning "large mailbox" messages on this list, I've not been
> really clear about why it should happen with Sendmail.. Hence the
> question - we always manage to get thru large mailboxes but only
> after several minutes! There are only 4 users of the system - so I
> don't think s
