dovecot - Apr 2003 - Mbox spool; dovecot rewriting and rewriting and rewriting

Hi,

jaldhar recommended dovecot to me -
http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/archives/2003/04/07/000286.html ...
and so far it seems much nicer than the other imapds.  yay.

I use the OS X Mail.app client.    I tested it with a test account
with no problems, but trying to use it with my usual mail folders
(~1.3GB; 120MB in the inbox) it's not working at all.

It seems like dovecot keeps copying the full inbox into a temp file
in mail/.imap/INBOX.  It did it at least 10 times while I was
watching without any noticable progress doing anything at all in
Mail.app.

I am running FreeBSD on an ancient box with 384MB ram (but nice SCSI
drives).

I tried stopping new mail deliveries to the inbox while I testing,
but it didn't seem to make a difference.



 - ask

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On Mon, 2003-04-07 at 20:47, Ask Bjoern Hansen wrote:
> I use the OS X Mail.app client.    I tested it with a test account
> with no problems, but trying to use it with my usual mail folders
> (~1.3GB; 120MB in the inbox) it's not working at all.
> 
> It seems like dovecot keeps copying the full inbox into a temp file
> in mail/.imap/INBOX.  It did it at least 10 times while I was
> watching without any noticable progress doing anything at all in
> Mail.app.
That sounds like Mail.app is creating new custom flags. What does
X-IMAPbase header look like in the first mail?

Anyway, rewriting isn't too well optimized yet. It's a bit better in CVS
now and I think I could make it a bit more better for the next release
(which might be good enough for most), but "optimal" rewriting
requires
a bit larger changes.
> I tried stopping new mail deliveries to the inbox while I testing,
> but it didn't seem to make a difference.
New mails shouldn't require rewriting, especially the whole file.