On Tue, Jul 17, 2007 at 09:52:51PM -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
Courier is really nothing more than a translator between IMAP commands and
filesystem operations. Messages are files, folders are directories. Courier
has no problems with folders that contain hundreds of thousands of
On Wed, 18 Jul 2007, Brian Candler wrote:
Also, if your filesystem is in a state where 'ls' appears to hang, it might
just be that there are so many files that it's taking too long to sort them.
Try ls -U (unsorted) instead.
If your directories are that big and you're using ext3, take a look
On Wed, Jul 18, 2007 at 08:25:31AM -0400, Simon wrote:
If your directories are that big and you're using ext3, take a look
at the manpage for tune2fs and read about the dir_index feature. The
filesystem needs to be unmounted and fscked, but it should improve
directory access times.
This is
Hi,
Ok, I've been using courier-imap for quite a while and never had a
problem, but I guess its bound to happen sooner or later.
Server: Courier-imap 4.0.6 on Gentoo Linux
Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 on Windows (XP Pro)
I have a lot of folders and messages (I subscribe to a lot of mail
lists), and
Anyone? I'd really appreciate a comment from someone more knowledgeable,
before I start rm'ing stuff...
Simon, on 7/17/2007 8:40 AM, said the following:
Hi,
Ok, I've been using courier-imap for quite a while and never had a
problem, but I guess its bound to happen sooner or later.
Simon writes:
Hi,
Ok, I've been using courier-imap for quite a while and never had a
problem, but I guess its bound to happen sooner or later.
Server: Courier-imap 4.0.6 on Gentoo Linux
Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 on Windows (XP Pro)
I have a lot of folders and messages (I subscribe to a lot of
Simon writes:
I have already deleted the local cache files from the TBird profile,
so there is something wrong on the server side.
I'm confident that there's nothing wrong on the server side.
Well, maybe you'll not be quite so confident when I tell you that doing
an ls -al of the
