[horde] Problem of slow with server-side sorting
Michael Rubinsky
mrubinsk at horde.org
Tue Jun 2 13:36:55 UTC 2009
Quoting gimili <gimili17 at gmail.com>:
> Andrew Morgan wrote:
>> On Mon, 1 Jun 2009, Jose Luis Marin Perez wrote:
>>
>>> So what could happen? because the accounts that actually have too
>>> many emails it takes more than 2 minutes to load this show.
>>>
>>>
>>> Please I need your help to solve this problem
>>> Thank you
>>>
>>> Jolumape
>>
>> Do those users have Options -> Mail -> Mailbox and Folder Display
>> Options -> Default sorting criteria set to "Arrival Time"? This
>> should be the lowest impact on the IMAP server. Anything that
>> causes IMP to retrieve message headers or bodies will cause the
>> problems you describe as mailboxes grow large.
>>
>> Andy
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>
> I inadvertently switched away from "Arrival Time" and imp became
> **very** slow. It took me awhile to figure out what I had done.
> IMHO there should be a big warning next to this option about the
> possible effect on performance. Perhaps consideration should be
> given to having it locked by default in prefs.php.
There is a note about this already in the IMP configuration screen
accompanying the conf[server][sort_limit] setting - which tells IMP to
use the arrival time sort if a mailbox contains over a certain number
of messages.
Thanks,
mike
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