I don't know whether this is a BINC problem, or a MUA problem, but many operations seem very slow. I'm running the latest BINC version in Debian testing - the package revision is 1.1.8-1.
Examples of dog slow operations include deleting messages. Regardless of the number selected, I get about 1 done per second. Updating mail folders is also quite slow, ticking up the message count a bit faster than for deleting, probably 1.5-2 messages per second. All these times are with a SSL session across a 100Mbit link. The server is a 233MHz PII with 192MB RAM (unloaded) and the client is currently KMail 1.5.2 running on a dual Celeron 400 w/ 384MB RAM (equally unloaded). Other clients, such as Balsa and Sylpheed are equally slow. Also, accessing the IMAP with Squirrelmail is a fairly slow proposition - even when done on the little intranet here (100Mbit). Some message on the Squirrelmail mailing list says that enabling server-side sorting helps out a lot, but when I did that nothing seemed to work at all. This leads me to one question about sorting (part of the speed problem with Squirrelmail) - does BINC support the SORT command? Basically, I'd really love to use BINC but can't figure out why it's so doggone slow! Across a slower network (congestion) at work using a Microsoft server response times seem much faster. Can anyone help me? Cheers. chris.
