> Doubt if there is any answer to this but will ask anyway. Have a few > pop3 accounts with thousands of messages. Its slow when checking > email naturally. Are there any tweaks to speed it up? I imagine > there is an exchange of the message and header list which is the slow > down. Too bad the list could not be compressed with gzip or something > first. I think http has an option similar to that. > > Just asking. >
I am running Maildir format on CentOS 5.x 64bit with Ext3 on raid1. Often wander if Ext4 would have been better.