Purge tooks longer than timeout of 30 seconds

[Sasa Stupar]

--On 24. december 2004 13:18 +0100 Steffen Bornemann 
<Steffen.Bornemann at t-online.de> wrote:

>
>
> Hello List,
>
>
>
> i've been migrating my cyrus server to a newer version from an suse 9 to
> an gentoo system.
>
> The Problem by now is, that cyrus is really really slow, if you purge the
> mails. Pressing in outlook on purge deleted messages, takes longer than
> 30 secondes and i receiven a timeout.
>
> Squirrelmail doesn't start at all, because, it starts a purge after
> login.
>
> I tested already another user with a new mailbox und tried to reconstruct
> my migrated one. But nothing works. Also the new mailbox is pretty slow,
> if you purge.
>
> Cyrus Version is 2.2.10 and hardware is a Pentium II with 256MB.
>
> Hope, anybody can help me and have a merry christmas.
>
> Steffen

Well, it was discussed earlier about speed and that Outlook and similar are 
not pure IMAP clients. I switched to Mulberry ( 
http://www.cyrusoft.com/mulberry/ )and whoa what a speed with a mailboxsize 
of 3 GB and 300k+ messages (few sec) while it need on Outlook ages to open.

Sasa



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