William Mussatto wrote:
> I'm not sure why sendmail would be the issue.  Its more likely the program
> which handles IMAP (e.g., uw-imapd, courier) that is the issue.  In the
> case of uw-imapd with the standard 'mailbox' set up, the imapd program
> must read and parse the entire file which contains the messages to figure
> out which are the last 15.  This takes time.  With a very large "mailbox"
> you could see a time out error.

I haven't seen a timeout yet - my large mailbox has close to 6000 messages
and growing..
But, from what you say, is there an alternative to imapd that will not read
the entire mailbox to find the last 15? What is your opinion of courier?

Thank you very much.

Regards,
Somik



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