On 2010-03-03 Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Ansgar Wiechers put forth on 3/3/2010 6:37 AM: >> On 2010-03-03 Jonathan Tripathy wrote: >>> I'm not sure if there is a solution to this, but maybe one of you >>> folks will know a "workaround". >>> >>> After thunderbird has sent the email, it then has to save the email >>> to the sent items folders. This can take a long time if there is an >>> attachment and the server is remote. >> >> This is done via IMAP, so it's a Dovecot rather than a Postfix issue. >> >> A workaround might be to configure Thunderbird to not store a copy of >> your sent mail and instead have Postfix BCC a copy to yourself. Or >> you could simply not send large attachments via e-mail. > > There is zero advantage to your BCC suggestion. The BCC copy is still > going to have to end up on his remote IMAP server.
I was under the impression that his Postfix and Dovecot are running on the same (remote) host, and he's using Postfix as a smarthost for his outbound mail. If that's the case, then there certainly is an advantage, as his client won't have to transfer the message twice. Otherwise you're correct, of course. > Just store the sent items in Local Folders/Sent Items. I do this and > it works great. You're giving up the advanteges of IMAP, though. > My Dovecot server is local, 100BaseT, and it's still noticeably faster > to store Sent Items locally on the workstation. Well, duh. Even old PATA/33 drives have almost three times the transfer rate of 100BaseT. Regards Ansgar Wiechers -- "Abstractions save us time working, but they don't save us time learning." --Joel Spolsky
