[Imap-uw] append with tmail to mix mbox not a O(1) operation?

2008-02-19 Thread Pawel Salek
Hi, I have an IMAP server (2007k, 2007.398) running on a rather old hardware. I see that delivering new messages with tmail to mix mailboxes with 4+ messages can take several seconds (about 5-6s). Delivering to a small mailbox takes about 0.1- 0.3 on that hardware. Has anybody else

Re: [Imap-uw] append with tmail to mix mbox not a O(1) operation?

2008-02-19 Thread Bob Atkins
Title: Untitled Document Pawel, Yes, we have seen the same problem here. We thought that converting to mix boxes would have helped the situation considerably. We used to use mbx format. However, much to our surprise, we still see very heavy IO when delivering messages with tmail to large mix

Re: [Imap-uw] append with tmail to mix mbox not a O(1) operation?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Crispin
Yes, I am aware of a performance problem when adding a message to a large mailbox. The entire index and status file is always rewritten. You are not the only person to have complained about this problem. The focus on my efforts had been to make mix as reliable as possible. Now, my focus is

[Imap-uw] latest 2007a.DEV pop problems

2008-02-19 Thread Gary Casterline
Hi, I've been following the DEV versions pretty closely and with imap-2007a.DEV.SNAP-0802160141, I've noticed some inconsistency with POP connections. Some clients (Eudora on MAC and Thunderbird on windows for sure, probably others) were not getting authenticated and couldn't receive new

Re: [Imap-uw] imap without nfs

2008-02-19 Thread Joel Reicher
Joel Reicher wrote: You *can* have imapd run on the same server as the homedirs are. What you can't (or shouldn't) do is leave open any kind of access to the mailstore because there's no guarantee that a random app the user decides to use won't corrupt the folders by accessing them as

Re: [Imap-uw] latest 2007a.DEV pop problems

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Gary Casterline wrote: I've been following the DEV versions pretty closely and with imap-2007a.DEV.SNAP-0802160141, I've noticed some inconsistency with POP connections. Some clients (Eudora on MAC and Thunderbird on windows for sure, probably others) were not getting

Re: [Imap-uw] latest 2007a.DEV pop problems

2008-02-19 Thread David Severance
Does this problem affect the released 2007 version as well? I have some reports about pop problems but mainly from people using Google Gmail to check pop from our servers. Just curious if it might be related. thanks, David Mark Crispin wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Gary Casterline wrote:

Re: [Imap-uw] append with tmail to mix mbox not a O(1) operation?

2008-02-19 Thread Mark Crispin
On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Bob Atkins wrote: As always - thank you for your continuing efforts to improve what is already excellent imap server. Thank you! [Today was not a good day...flat tire on my motorcycle on the way to work...] While we are having a group hug :-) I would like to thank the

Re: [Imap-uw] append with tmail to mix mbox not a O(1) operation?

2008-02-19 Thread Bob Atkins
Mark, Mark Crispin wrote: On Tue, 19 Feb 2008, Bob Atkins wrote: As always - thank you for your continuing efforts to improve what is already excellent imap server. Thank you! [Today was not a good day...flat tire on my motorcycle on the way to work...] Bummer - I hope it