[Dovecot] Mac mail copy/delete problems w/1.0b2

[Tony Kay]

On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 22:00:56 +0100, Lorens <dovecot.fdop at tagged.lorens.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 06, 2006 at 12:25:14PM -0800, Tony Kay wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > Mac mail (a horribly mis-behaved client, it seems), has a horribly hard time deleting/copying large blocks of messages from one folder to another. The basic symptom is:
> > 
> > 1. Select a bunch of messages
> > 2. Click on delete
> > 3. Wait for a _very_ long time.
> > 
> > It also seems very slow on copying, so it may be the "trash folder copy on delete" that is really slowing it down.
> 
> Mailbox or Maildir? Can you give any idea/examples of how large
> the boxes are, and how large the deleted/copied bunches of
> messages are?  ("Large" both as in bytes and as in number of
> messages).

Ooops, sorry:

mbox, large number of messages = 2MB of mail in a folder, 875 messages.

> 
> HAND


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