Doh, stupid me listing sendmail. It's been a hellish week. I'm running UW's Imap-2002b. I'll try removing pref files, but I think you're on to something with their Folders. My INBOX stores only 80 emails or so. Some of these dolts were storing 600 emails in their INBOX. I have about 11 other Folders with email on my account, and I've still never experienced their problems.
Is there any info about migration from UW-imap to Courier? > 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 >> >> > -- 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
