Large emailbox & Evolution/Dovecot = slow

[Craig White]

On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:14 +0100, Patrick wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I use Evolution and IMAP with Dovecot on an updated FC4 system. Dovecot
> uses its included config. My mailbox is now about 76 megs and rapidly
> growing because of the various high-volume mailing lists I'm subscribed
> too. Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the
> responsiveness of Evolution/Dovecot is deteriorating. Anyone have any
> idea how I can optimize this setup so I get a decent performance again?
> 
---
You probably can convert from mbox format to maildir format - I don't
know how to do that but I'm sure there are instructions.

My recommendation, use cyrus-imapd - it is blazingly fast. Considering
that a change from mbox to maildir is not without pain, changing from
dovecot to cyrus-imapd gives you the whole enchilada.

Craig


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