Re: [SM-USERS] Problems with 1.2.6, plus clues for speed issues.

[Jason M. <ja...@st...>]

Squirrelmail-Users List said:
>
> Guys,
>
> I have noticed several things that might be significant to the speed
> problems repoorted by some people... but this is while looking into the
> 1.2.6 filter plugin.
> The filter plugin in 1.2.6 doesn't seem to work at all on my system...
> I've switched back to the 1.2.5 version of that plugin and it's OK
> again! Any ideas?
> In 1.2.5 it calls IMAP like this:-
>
> a001 SEARCH ALL Subject "[linux-lvm]"
>
> While in 1.2.6 in calls like this:-
>
> a001 SEARCH ALL Subject {14}
>
> What gives?

Are you sure the [linux-lvm] is not after the {14}?
Whats your PHP/Web/IMAP setup?

> RIGHT!....
>
> On to the speed thing....
>
> Firstly, when I press the "next/previous" message buttons... it lists
> ALL the folders by IMAP... WHY?

Sounds like you are using the folder sync plugin. That would explain why
folder lists are generated when the right side is refreshed via the
next/previous (or by anything).
>  This happens when opening a folder
> too... infact it takes most of the time!  This isn't the slow thing
> though....  the slow thing is the filters...  The filters are performed
> by IMAP search, this HAS to be slow, and in my system it's painfully
> slow... why not just fetch the header fields into PHP and do the search
> there... after all there's probably only a few messages needing
> filtering... changing the search to UNSEEN doesn't give much of a speed
> improvement....

Hmm. I dont know that fetching all the headers of the entire INBOX would
be faster than a SEARCH command. What if your INBOX was 2000 messages?
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