[imp] Imp+sorting=terrible slow down

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Joe7 <rrcomp at hotmail.com>:

> Hello Experts,
> I just realized that my problem with mailboxes -which has more then
> 10.000mails in inbox-,
> IS sorting.

Sorting 10,000 messages on any server is going to take a substantial 
amount of time.  As you have noted, this has absolutely nothing to do 
with IMP.

> (if I disable this in courier imapd config,
> everything goes at lightning speed, login takes <1sec (instead of
> 1MINUTE or failure), and to go to
> the next page in inbox is just about 1sec instead of 30..
> So my question is how to make sorting faster.

How to make sorting faster?  The only surefire solution is to reduce 
the number of messages in your mailbox.  Or use the default sorting 
algorithim that your underlying mailbox uses (most likely this is 
arrival time).

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]