Robert, A DBMail native patch would indeed be sweet, but it seems that the root of the problem is DBMail's lack of support for the Sort extension and server-side threading.
Leif Jackson made a patch for the 2.0 series to support the Sort extension. I'm unaware of any patches for the 1.x series. Richard. On Fri, 2004-09-10 at 11:21, Robert wrote: > > Richard, > > The slowness that you are experiencing is with Squirrelmail. > Squirrelmail 1.4.3a reads all the headers of the entire pieces > of email you have in your INBOX via IMAP. > So if you have 2K or 100K of messages, this will take forever > and you might even get a PHP timeout. IMAP is the real bottleneck > in Squirrelmail. SM is okay if you keep your email in your INBOX > to about less than 300 emails. If you went on a vacation and your > INBOX has 1K messages in it when you return, hehehe you will need to wait > for a while to get your emails. > SM 1.5.1 seems to ONLY read the needed headers to be diplayed > in one index page. It is not a release version yet but seems to work > a bit better than SM 1.4.3a. > If somebody can write a plugin or modify or patch squirrelmail to access > DBMAIL directly without using IMAP, this will be the holy grail. Even > the search feature in SM will then be super fast. > > > Robert
