Large emailbox & Evolution/Dovecot = slow

[Mike McMullen]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Gaynor" <briang at pmccorp.com>
To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:18 AM
Subject: Re: Large emailbox & Evolution/Dovecot = slow


>> 
>> 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?
> 
> I'm running Dovecot/IMAP on a small office network were many users have
> 200MB+ sized mailboxes and haven't seen any performance problems. Our
> mailboxes are using Maildir format (converted sometime ago from mbox
> using a perl script I found online). 

> Brian Gaynor
> www.pmccorp.com
> FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 


Hi Brian,

I am looking to convert our small office from mbox to maildir format. Could
you email me the perl script you used to convert or point me to where it is?

I've been looking for exactly that type of tool.

Thanks,

Mike