On 5.9.2012, at 14.40, Angel L. Mateo wrote: > Sep 3 12:35:49 myotis32 dovecot: imap(<imapuser>): Warning: Maildir: > Scanning <maildir cur directory> took 62 seconds (9516 readdir()s, 0 > rename()s to cur/, why=0x80) > > We have check that messages are directed with lmtp to the same server > the user (scenario 3 at http://wiki2.dovecot.org/NFS with director in front > of backend servers). > > So my question is why is dovecot using these readdirs operations? why > it is scanning the whole cur directory of the user? I guess this is an index > resynchronization, but I don't know could it be the cause.
That's the way Maildir works. If Dovecot is the only one accessing the maildir, you can set maildir_very_dirty_syncs=yes to reduce how often readdir()s are done (but it doesn't completely eliminate them in all situations).
