On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 10:52:38PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote: > I have dovecot 2.1.12 running on a mail server, and recently > configured Apple Mail to connect to it using secure IMAP, for the > first time. > > At the beginning it just showed the inbox and everything was fine, but > then I wanted to look at some of my folders and found the 'subscribe' > menu. When I opened it, Apple Mail went to discover what mailboxes > there are, and that's where my trouble began. > > It seemed to make good progress for some time (though slow -- over > days), and now lists the mailboxes from starting with letters a to d > on the left hand side (filling all the visible space, so there might > be more). However, whenever Apple Mail gets focus, the cursor becomes > a spinning rainbow circle and I can't interact with it. > > I tried deleting the mail account and setting it up again. The inbox > was shown again immediately and Apple Mail was usable, but the first > time the cursor moved over the mailboxes on the left hand side, it > froze again. > > There were two imap processes on the server, one rather idle, the > other eating CPU for about two minutes, then idling, and some time > later it disappeared too. > > My Mail directory is 31G with about 180 directories, each containing > mails in maildir format.
One thing that happened twice now is that files like these appear: /home/user/Mail/dir/cur/.imap/1312388125.11233_28123.host:2,S/dovecot.index.log but they don't go away for days. How can that happen? Can/should I delete these files? Thomas