On Wed, Jun 27, 2012 at 12:50:20PM +0300, Timo Sirainen wrote: > What mailbox format do you use? This shouldn't be a problem with for > example mdbox, probably not with sdbox either and with mbox/maildir > there are settings that can improve this.
This is mbox. > Or are you not talking about opening the mailbox, but about clients > redownloading all the mails all the time? I don't think the client downloads the whole mailbox each time. It takes so long on a 1 GB mbox that the users would have complained. However, I can see a lot of disk I/O activity for pop daemon operating on the bigger mbox (easy to spot looking at the process uid) -- Emmanuel Dreyfus m...@netbsd.org