> > As others have tried to point out, something sounds amis with your > > system. 8 hours to fetch a folder via IMAP sounds very wrong. > > Well, actually the fetch never finished (or better: the mails were > never displayed in Mozilla-Mail) and what I saw was some CPU usage > because of some INSERTS from dbmail-smtp. Actually i saw sth similar in mozilla t-bird: when firing 10000 tiny mails against postfix (keeping dbmail-lmtpd pretty busy with inserting mails to the database) t-bird 0.8 seemed to have problems on a very busy imap inbox. None the less ms outlook express as client seems not to get confused and just fetches the e-mails already present...
> I installed now Slackware. Postgres 8.0 fresh compiled, basically I > see the same weird behaviour. There are several possibilities now: > - dbmail2 rc8 contains some bugs Yes, afair at least some in dbmail-users/utils :) You might wanna try a fresh cvs-checkout of the dbmail_2_0_branch. > - postgres 8 beta contains bugs That's why it's called beta. To play it safe I'd stick to the latest stable of postgresql in your case. > - I'm new to Linux and PostgreSQL and everything I've done is wrong. Probably not, at least you got it up and running in some way. > Well, to be honest, it seems to be faster (me as single user, DB at > slow remote host, after 250 mails inserted). After the first 100 > mails arrived I started to edit the message filters in the client, > after that was finished, I opened the Junk folder where already > several messages were moved to. Now mozilla shows me to wait and when > I click on a message it is not fetched, it seems to hang. However, > clicking through other folders alwways shows me the mails in the > folder, but when I click on a mesage it is not fecthed and not > displayed therefore. It is not possible to get a usable performance > with a PII (300 MHz / 256 MB RAM) box running Slackware 9.1. give "top" a try on the slackware box and have a look at the memory usage, maybe it helps to tune the number of processes [in dbmail.conf] spawned by the dbmail-daemons - on my BSD Box with limited memory this helped a lot. Wolfram
