On 04 May 2015, at 16:59, Nagy, Attila <b...@fsn.hu> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> On 05/04/15 10:59, Timo Sirainen wrote:
>> On 28 Apr 2015, at 23:49, Nagy, Attila <b...@fsn.hu> wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> imapc does a lot of UID FETCH $UID (BODY.PEEK[]), which is nice, because it 
>>> works even with the dumbest IMAP server, altough it really kills 
>>> performance, especially on high latency lines.
>>> 
>>> I wonder: if IMAP servers can effectively handle boundless fetches (like a 
>>> list with all wanted UIDs, or simply 1:* if all are needed), do you see 
>>> this as a good addition to develop?
>> Set mail_prefetch_count = 10 or 100 or something and it'll do larger 
>> FETCHes. The higher the value, the more memory/disk space is used for 
>> storing the received mails.
>> 
> I'm aware of that, but it doesn't, or at least not always.
> For example Thunderbird issues this:
> 13 UID fetch 333574:333601,333630:333801 (UID RFC822.SIZE FLAGS 
> BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (From To Cc Bcc Subject Date Message-ID Priority 
> X-Priority References Newsgroups In-Reply-To Content-Type Reply-To)])
> Dovecot does this to the IMAP backend
> 18 UID FETCH 333574 (BODY.PEEK[])

Oh, there were several bugs related to that. Fixed:

http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/8f20aa806bcc
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/d350a23207c2
http://hg.dovecot.org/dovecot-2.2/rev/8c49fb6d789b

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