[imp] Slow logins and sends from one ISP

[Andrew Morgan]

On Tue, 15 May 2007, Brett Charbeneau wrote:

> On Tue, 15 May 2007, Andrew Morgan wrote:
>
> AM> How long does it take to login with an IMAP mail client such as Thunderbird?
> AM> I'd suspect the problem lies with uw-imapd.
>
> 	I've got a single user who is fond of Thunderbird and reports no delays.
> He is using it locally ONLY however...

Well, what I was getting at is that it is possible to configure IMP + 
uw-imapd such that a user's entire home directory is scanned for 
mailboxes.  If a user has a large home directory, it can take a long time. 
Have you recompiled uw-imapd to only look in the ~/mail directory, or have 
you configured the namespace in IMP to restrict it to ~/mail?

You'll want something like the following in the server config:

     'imap_config' => array(
         'children' => true,
         'namespace' => array(
             '' => array(
                 'name' => 'mail/',
                 'delimiter' => '/',
                 'type' => 'personal',
                 'hidden' => false,
             )
         ),
         'search_charset' => array(
             'UTF-8' => true
         )
     ),


 	Andy