[imp] Imp+sorting=terrible slow down

[Jigish Gohil]

Just wanted to know, does imap proxy have any performance advantage in
this kind of situation, i.e. large mailboxes and sorting?

Jigish

On 6/28/05, Ross Becker <ross at rbecker.org> wrote:
> Another option is to try out the dovecot IMAP server. It's designed to
> make stuff like this work quickly.
> 
> --Ross
> 
> Michael M Slusarz wrote:
> > 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
> >
> > _______________________________________
> > Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]
> 
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