[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> Well, what I was getting at is that it is possible to configure IMP +
> AM> uw-imapd such that a user's entire home directory is scanned for mailboxes.
> AM> If a user has a large home directory, it can take a long time. Have you
> AM> recompiled uw-imapd to only look in the ~/mail directory, or have you
> AM> configured the namespace in IMP to restrict it to ~/mail?
> AM>
> AM> You'll want something like the following in the server config:
> AM>
> AM>     'imap_config' => array(
> AM>         'children' => true,
> AM>         'namespace' => array(
> AM>             '' => array(
> AM>                 'name' => 'mail/',
> AM>                 'delimiter' => '/',
> AM>                 'type' => 'personal',
> AM>                 'hidden' => false,
> AM>             )
> AM>         ),
> AM>         'search_charset' => array(
> AM>             'UTF-8' => true
> AM>         )
> AM>     ),
>
>
> 	I appreciate the response, Andy!
> 	I'm using uw-imapd as it comes in the Debian distro - I'm not sure how
> I'd check the compilation flags. The release notes are pretty informative but
> nothing about all the options compiled in.
> 	I can say that *I* have an absolutely gargantuan home directory (by far
> the biggest on our server) and I'm able to get in an out of IMP from desk at
> work *and* from my ISP at home (same ISP as work) without these delays.
> 	So I think I see the tree you're barking up here, and I definitely
> learned something about the way uw-imapd does its thing, but I don't think
> that's the issue.
> 	Is the chunk 'o configs you kindly list above supposed to go on the mail
> server running uw-imapd? Or is this an IMP config?

It goes in imp/config/servers.php.  Here is a complete entry:

$servers['test'] = array(
     'name' => 'test.example.com',
     'server' => 'test.example.com',
     'protocol' => 'imap/ssl/novalidate-cert',
     'port' => 993,
     'maildomain' => 'test.example.com',
     'realm' => 'test.example.com',
     'imap_config' => array(
         'children' => true,
         'namespace' => array(
             '' => array(
                 'name' => 'mail/',
                 'delimiter' => '/',
                 'type' => 'personal',
                 'hidden' => false,
             )
         ),
         'search_charset' => array(
             'UTF-8' => true
         )
     ),
);


 	Andy