Aki Tuomi <[email protected]> writes: > Yes. You deffo are looking at several reasons for slowness. > > I can only recommend moving into maildir or sdbox format, and probably new > HDD too. > > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Tools/Doveadm/Sync here is example of 'converting' > between mailbox formats using dsync. You should also read > https://wiki2.dovecot.org/Migration/MailFormat > > mbox format has been known to act up with dsync occasionally, so I recommend > using > > doveadm backup maildir:~/Maildir
Thanks, I've done that now, and things are looking much better. I rediscovered that I've configured postfix to deliver locally using dovecot-lmtp - which meant that I then only needed to change dovecot's mail_location setting, and nothing at all in the postfix config. Many thanks! - Neil
