On 9/25/06, Paul A. Franz, P.E. <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I have that problem too. But only when there the account has a lot of e-mail 
> in it. A
> nearly empty account is fast. The problem is that the IMAP server is slow. 
> The way to
> verify this is to run top in a teminal window and then check mail. You'll see 
> all the
> wait time is due to slow IMAP. I'm running UW IMAP so I thought I'd do a 
> little
> research to see if Courier or some other IMAP server solves the problem. My 
> research
> shows that possibly another one is a little faster but the problem doesn't go 
> away
> with any of them.

Yeah, but UW is probably the last IMAP server you want to run if you
really want a solid, fast, and full featured mail server.  Using
maildir instead of mailbox is also a factor.

> > 5. If you use imapproxy, check proxy debugging options.
>
> When would one run an imap proxy? How and why would you do that?

For explanation, please see
http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/SquirrelMailPerformance

> Apparently, this behavior is normal and some say that IMAP usage, say with 
> SM, just

Have you tried SM 1.5 (development stream)?  It's got some large speed
improvements for the situation you describe.

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