On 04 May 2015, at 18:45, Timo Sirainen <t...@iki.fi> wrote:
> 
> 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

Also if you want imapc to use the full set of features with latest Dovecot, use:

imapc_features=rfc822.size fetch-headers search

After that it shouldn't be fetching BODY.PEEK[] anymore unless the body was 
actually wanted to be fetched.

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