Christian writes:
hi,i have an imap account where I store all mails subcribed to different mailing lists. There are several folders, with several thousands of mails. Now I decided to delete some which causes a lot of trouble. I selected the mails (nearly 15000 from the xen users list) and tried to move them to trash. It seemed that this job did not get finished. I opened a console and ssh to the box and started top to see what's going on. There I saw spawning more and more imapd process' coming up and increasing load up to 60. I decided to kill my thunderbird, but the imapd process' still getting more. then I tried to stop courier-imap. All imapd process' were stopped too. fine. then started courier-imap again. started thunder-bird. and selected the Trash folder. uhmm, loading headers up 911532 thousands. After loading all headers I saw mails listed 4 and 5 times. (Is this normal behaviour ?) I deleted them no problem. but deleting files inside .Trash/tmp took me nearly an hour. What is the max size of mails courier-imap is able to handle without problems ?
The maximum size depends on how much RAM you've allocated to the IMAP server process, in your imapd configuration file.
But your problem is not the maximum folder size, it is sufficient for this folder, otherwise the IMAP server wouldn't start at all. Your problem is your IMAP client giving up prematurely, closing the connection, reconnecting, and blindly resending the same command, not waiting for the command to complete, give up prematurely, closing the connection, reconnecting, and blindly resending the same command, not waiting for the command to complete, …
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