> 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 scalability is the issue here. > > I wanted to understand the details behind this - is it something in > the IMAP protocol that does not allow you to get the last 15 mail > headers? > I would imagine that there ought to be something by which squirrelmail > could just get the relevant headers and display them quickly, instead of > processing the whole box. > > My apologies if this is a naive question... > > Regards, > Somik 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 contains the messages to figure out which are the last 15. This takes time. With a very large "mailbox" you could see a time out error.
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