Ok, well something is taking a long time to process. What mail server are you running (sendmail is the MTA, not the IMAP server)? With UW there are problems with having folders with many messages. That slowed my system down a lot (sometimes a few minutes to log in). It didn't matter if the messages were in the mail spool, or stored in the users personal folders on the server. Having a lot of messages took a long time to process.
I replaced my UW installation with Courier IMAP and got a magnitude speed improvement. Not only is Squirrelmail easy to use now, it's FAST. It uses Maildir format instead of mbox which is better for folders with lots of messages (lots=in the 100s or more). Think of it this way, if you have 5 folders with 100 messages each, your IMAP server has to open 5 pretty large files when you login.. If you have squirrelmail showing how many messages are in each folder it will be MUCH MUCH slower with mbox format. Not only does it have to open these 5 large files, not it has to scan them for message status. Something else that might help troubleshoot is to move the user preference file out of the way (create a backup!). Sometimes user preferences (perhaps linked to a plugin) could be slowing things down.. for example, what I said above, about showing message count on each folder could be the culprit: mv /var/squirrelmail/<username>.pref /var/squirrelmail/<username>.pref.bak Good luck! Tell us your IMAP server software. :) -Brett > To sum up the problem: > > Fatal error: Maximum execution time of 30 seconds exceeded in > /home/httpd/ssldocs/squirrelmail/functions/imap_general.php on line 489 > > Now to clarify some things. I have all ready read: > http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/en_US/NewUserCannotLogin and these did > help point me in the right direction, but not fix my problem. > > A very few select of my users are having a problem where they cannot > view their INBOX. As soon as they login, the page takes for ever to load, > and eventually shows the error above. They can still send email, browse > other Folders, etc. > > It appears to be related to large attachments but I'm not positive. The > first users had an mbox of 380,000 lines. 260,000 of those lines were ONE > PDF file. I removed all 260,000 lines and the user could log back in. Two > days later if happened again, but I couldn't find any more huge > attachments this time. > > Also, two of his friends are having the same problem. I keep checking > their mbox's for large attachments but sometimes I find nothing. One of > them had an mbox of only 1,000 lines, and he couldn't login. > > My mbox is 280,000 lines and has only 100 some emails in it. I login just > fine. What exactly is happening here? I checked permissions, I tried > raising the Timeout and Memory settings in php.ini, nothing is fixing the > problem. > > Any further suggestions I could look into? > > This is a Solaris 8 system running SM 1.4.0 with SendMail 8.12.8p1/8.12.5 > > -- > Calm down. It's all just ones and zeros. > > > > ------------------------------------------------------- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay > Get office equipment for less on eBay! > http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 > -- > squirrelmail-users mailing list > List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 > List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users > > ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: eBay Get office equipment for less on eBay! http://adfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/711-11697-6916-5 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list List Address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
