Since we're going to be moving to a beefier server soon (we're adding another several thousand users), I have a brand new, currently unused, server to play with. I created a test domain and user, and dumped the main.mbx file into it. It took about 5 minutes to display the first page of messages! There were 200 messages in the mailbox, and it's an unused dual-proc 2.5 gHz Xeon server. During this time, the CPU's were "pegged" at 50%. Obviously, something's wrong.
Actually, it may be that nothing is wrong.
You took a mailbox with 200 messages (1MB? 20MB?), and IMail needed to index it, since you didn't copy the index file over. 5 minutes does seem excessive, though.
I then created a new mailbox, copied the messages over (with Web Messaging), deleted the old file, and renamed the new file back to main.mbx. This time, the message display was instantaneous.
That's because copying over the new files, IMail automatically updated the index.
Does anyone know what's happening? Is there a utility available to fix problem mailboxes? We've occasionally had weird problems with mailboxes in the past, but nothing like this.
Most likely, the problem is simply the index creation (which may take longer when dealing with a .mbx file with no index, since IMail has to assume something is wrong if the index file isn't there).
-Scott
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