[imp] Re: IMAP messages not displaying in IMP

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Eli <eli-list at experthost.com>:

> Joseph wrote:
>> We've seen this with huge mailboxes just because of a timeout.  Try
>> another imap client immediately and see how long it takes to open
>> the mailbox.
>
> Tried Outlook and it was taking ages :)  The odd thing is though that IMP
> seems to give up after just 10-15 seconds which is why I didn't even think
> of a timeout.  PHP's ini file is set to allow 30 seconds for scripts to run,
> and I even thought that it got set to unlimited by Horde or IMP (not sure
> though).  Is this a timeout that's set somewhere that I can change?  It'd be
> nice if it could just grab the first x messages only and display those
> rather than trying to get all messages and then just *display* the first x
> messages... unless that's not possible with IMAP?

Are you sorting by thread? Name? Subject?  Sorting large mailboxes by 
anything other than arrival date will take quite a long time.  See 
imp/config/conf.php and $conf['server']['sort_limit'].

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]