On 23.6.2012, at 13.21, Ed W wrote: >>> But I don't know, whether this is the sort of caching you are referring to. >> >> what's a point of caching imap, except your webmail service is not locally >> connected (localhost or LAN) to imap server? > > Asking for items 600-615 from a threaded list, sorted by something, can be an > expensive operation, especially if you just asked for items 585-600 a moment > ago?
Can be, but is it? :) Dovecot attempts to cache/index stuff as well. Normally there shouldn't be a need for extra caching layer except in cases of higher network latency.
