Large emailbox & Evolution/Dovecot = slow

[Nigel Wade]

Mike McMullen wrote:
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Brian Gaynor" <briang at pmccorp.com>
> To: "For users of Fedora Core releases" <fedora-list at redhat.com>
> Sent: Wednesday, November 09, 2005 9:18 AM
> Subject: Re: Large emailbox & Evolution/Dovecot = slow
> 
> 
>>>
>>> I use Evolution and IMAP with Dovecot on an updated FC4 system. Dovecot
>>> uses its included config. My mailbox is now about 76 megs and rapidly
>>> growing because of the various high-volume mailing lists I'm subscribed
>>> too. Over the last couple of weeks I have noticed that the
>>> responsiveness of Evolution/Dovecot is deteriorating. Anyone have any
>>> idea how I can optimize this setup so I get a decent performance again?
>>
>>
>> I'm running Dovecot/IMAP on a small office network were many users have
>> 200MB+ sized mailboxes and haven't seen any performance problems. Our
>> mailboxes are using Maildir format (converted sometime ago from mbox
>> using a perl script I found online). 
> 
> 
>> Brian Gaynor
>> www.pmccorp.com
>> FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz 
> 
> 
> 
> Hi Brian,
> 
> I am looking to convert our small office from mbox to maildir format. Could
> you email me the perl script you used to convert or point me to where it 
> is?
> 
> I've been looking for exactly that type of tool.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Mike
> 
> 

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