Hi, can you try :
IMAP_DISABLETHREADSORT=1 in courier-imapd configuration ? (disables sorting of threads on the server-side) it seems to help a bit for me Cheers, Mik Le mercredi 23 Juin 2004 20:57, Courtney L. Sherman a écrit : > > I am using KMail for IMAP on folders containing more than 10000 messages > > For me, the problem becomes severe when the folders approach 1000 messages. > > > Though I do use Cyrus IMAPd, not Courier. > > This is an interesting idea. Does anyone have these slowdowns with > cyrus or conversely not have any problems with courier? > > > Maybe KMail wants to reindex the folder and does it in a way, > > where Courier becomes heavily loaded. > > I have suspected something along these lines since the slowdowns seem to > coincide with reading the headers for a folder that has new messages > since the last access. Also, the progress meter in the lower-right of > the kmail window completes repeatedly during this process. > > > Does KMail do any network transfers while it is stuck (is it downloading > > large amounts of data, or sending a large number of commands to the > > server?) > > For me, the problem is there but not as severe when I run kmail on the > server. From the local network the slowdowns are a bit worse. Remote > access is noticeably worse. From this I infer that there is a lot of > network traffic. Is there a better way I could test this that would > yield more helpful information? > > Courtney
