Large emailbox & Evolution/Dovecot = slow

[Brian Gaynor]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:14 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use Evolution and IMAP with Dovecot on an updated FC4 system. Dovecot
> uses its included config. My mailbox is now about 76 megs and rapidly
> growing because of the various high-volume mailing lists I'm subscribed
> too. Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the
> responsiveness of Evolution/Dovecot is deteriorating. Anyone have any
> idea how I can optimize this setup so I get a decent performance again?

I'm running Dovecot/IMAP on a small office network were many users have
200MB+ sized mailboxes and haven't seen any performance problems. Our
mailboxes are using Maildir format (converted sometime ago from mbox
using a perl script I found online). With IMAP and large mailstores it
helps to make sure your client is not scanning all folders for new
messages (scanning takes time) - move old messages to archive folders
that aren't being scanned.

-- 
Brian Gaynor
www.pmccorp.com
FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
canis 09:12:32 up 41 min, 1 
user, load average: 0.10, 0.25,