Hi Stan, On Thu, 10 Mar 2011, Stan Hoeppner wrote: > Chris Wilson put forth on 3/9/2011 10:02 AM: > > > I think it would be a good idea for me to move from mbox to mdbox, as I > > have 57,000 messages in my inbox, and clients hang for a minute whenever > > they request a CHECK, or Dovecot feels the need to run one itself. > > Why do you believe switching to mdbox will fix this problem?
Because CHECK takes forever, I can understand why it's necessary on mbox files, I don't see that it should be necessary on an mdbox store, and so I'm hoping that mdbox will be much faster. > If you have 57k messages in your INBOX as you say, then you have a much > bigger problem to solve than your choice of mailbox format. Well forgive me for wanting to be easily able to find any email I received in the last year from Pine (which makes switching folders a little painful). Seriously, this is 2011, it shouldn't be impossible to index and randomly access 60,000 records containing a few GB of data in reasonable time. Cheers, Chris. -- Aptivate | http://www.aptivate.org | Phone: +44 1223 760887 The Humanitarian Centre, Fenner's, Gresham Road, Cambridge CB1 2ES Aptivate is a not-for-profit company registered in England and Wales with company number 04980791.
