Hi,
Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time
deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic
symptom is:
1. Select a bunch of messages
2. Click on delete
3. Wait for a _very_ long time.
It also seems very slow on copying, so it may be the "trash folder copy on
delete" that is really slowing it down.
Anybody else seen this?
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On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:25:14PM -0800, Tony Kay wrote:> Hi, > > Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic symptom is: > > 1. Select a bunch of messages > 2. Click on delete > 3. Wait for a _very_ long time. > > It also seems very slow on copying, so it may be the "trash folder copy on delete" that is really slowing it down.Mailbox or Maildir? Can you give any idea/examples of how large the boxes are, and how large the deleted/copied bunches of messages are? ("Large" both as in bytes and as in number of messages). HAND
Tony Kay wrote:> Hi, > > Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic symptom is: > > 1. Select a bunch of messages > 2. Click on delete > 3. Wait for a _very_ long time.This sounds vaguely familiar... I don't know if it still applies on 1.0 (yes, I'm still running 0.99.14) but ISTR "maildir_copy_with_hardlinks = yes" did good things for me. Obviously, this only applies if you're using Maildir. -- Curtis Maloney cmaloney at cardgate.net
On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 12:25 -0800, Tony Kay wrote:> Hi, > > Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic symptom is: > > 1. Select a bunch of messages > 2. Click on delete > 3. Wait for a _very_ long time. > > It also seems very slow on copying, so it may be the "trash folder copy on delete" that is really slowing it down.What Dovecot version? You could check what Dovecot is doing by stracing the imap process. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part URL: <http://dovecot.org/pipermail/dovecot/attachments/20060207/c76eb581/attachment.bin>