* Stewart Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > I now have Dovecot in production and things are apparently trouble-free. The > one known problem is that initial client inbox load can take 30 seconds - 2 > minutes. For instance:
Initial? Initial after what? I guess the index is being rebuilt, cold that be? > 'I got fed up waiting and went and got coffee'...this with a 3MB mbox > inbox...and my mail server is a substantial machine consuming 25% CPU just > for this person's IMAP session. Normal. > I realize that a certain amount of performance piggishness is inevitable > with large mbox inboxes (the prize goes to the user with a 500MB inbox). > Eventually, I plan to move to maildir format, but for now I'm here. Also, > we have legacy requirement for procmail, so I can't currently use deliver. > > Questions: > 1) Any tuning I can do to improve this? Use deliver to rebuild the index wehenever a mail is delivered. -- Ralf Hildebrandt ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Postfix - Einrichtung, Betrieb und Wartung Tel. +49 (0)30-450 570-155 http://www.arschkrebs.de "The percentage of users running Windows NT Workstation 4.0 whose PCs stopped working more than once a month was less than half that of Windows 95 users."-- microsoft.com/ntworkstation/overview/Reliability/Highest.asp
