Hi Timo, Timo Sirainen schrieb: > On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:56 AM, Götz Reinicke - IT-Koordinator wrote: > >> But the mailclients (mostly thunderbird and apple mail) still reporte >> the timeouts by accessing the mailboxes. >> >> The server is doing smtp, imap/pop3, webmailsystem and >> spam/antivirus-checking all together. (RH EL 5, sendmail, horde, mysql, >> mailscanner, spamassassin) >> >> We use the original RH dovecot-1.0.7, mbox-format and mailboxes up to 4 >> GB ... (historicaly grown ...) > > Have you set mbox_very_dirty_syncs=yes?
grep mbox_very_dirty_syncs /etc/dovecot.conf #mbox_very_dirty_syncs = no so, I think "no" is the default. Setting this to "yes" is may be faster? > >> So where to start debugging the imap/pop3 timeouts? What information may >> I provide, which doc may I read? > > Anything in logs? Anyway my guess is that it spends all the time reading > those 4 GB mailboxes.. > With that guess, you are not the only one ... beside my guts ... ;-) If I do have the time, I'd like to switch over to e.g. maildir /Götz -- Götz Reinicke IT-Koordinator Tel. +49 7141 969 420 Fax +49 7141 969 55 420 E-Mail goetz.reini...@filmakademie.de Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg GmbH Akademiehof 10 71638 Ludwigsburg www.filmakademie.de Eintragung Amtsgericht Stuttgart HRB 205016 Vorsitzende des Aufsichtsrats: Prof. Dr. Claudia Hübner Staatsrätin für Demographischen Wandel und für Senioren im Staatsministerium Geschäftsführer: Prof. Thomas Schadt