On Wed, 2005-11-09 at 14:14 +0100, Patrick wrote: > Hi all, > > 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). With IMAP and large mailstores it helps to make sure your client is not scanning all folders for new messages (scanning takes time) - move old messages to archive folders that aren't being scanned. -- Brian Gaynor www.pmccorp.com FC4/Linux on DELL Inspiron 5160 3.0Ghz canis 09:12:32 up 41 min, 1 user, load average: 0.10, 0.25,
