Hi 

I have been using dbmail for a while now and have noticed that the
dbmail-imapd daemon seems to cause ever increasing memory usage. 
This seems to happen when an IMAP client (in my case Evolution) is
connected to dbmail.

To illustrate my point I have included the output of the free command
below:
Following ">>" are commands used to see this behavior.

>>free -tm
             total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
Mem:           501        492          9          0         30     48
-/+ buffers/cache:        413         88
Swap:          415         57        358
Total:         917        549        367

>> killall dbmail-imapd
>> sleep 10
>> free -tm
             total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
Mem:           501        220        281          0         30     48
-/+ buffers/cache:        140        361
Swap:          415         54        361
Total:         917        274        643

>>dbmail-imapd
>>free -tm
             total       used       free     shared    buffers cached
Mem:           501        220        281          0         30     48
-/+ buffers/cache:        140        361
Swap:          415         54        361
Total:         917        274        643

Now I am not sure what is using all that memory or if it is even
dbmail-imapd or maybe mysql, but since killing dbmail-imapd recovers the
memory I thought I raise it here.

I am currently using dbmail 1.1, with mysql 3.23.54 on a redhat 8.0
machine with 512 MB memory.

Cheers
Mark S Burgunder

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