Re: [SM-USERS] How many folders are too many?

[Jonathan A. <jo...@sq...>]

On 19:47 01/20/05 Darrell Golliher <da...@cx...> wrote:

> I have a user with over 3500 folders on the server.  Outlook on the
> PC and Mail.app on a Mac both seem to be able to handle this ok with
> my current imap setup (courier-imap-ssl package from debian/testing,
> 2.8Ghz machine with 2G RAM, Apache2, php4).
[..]

> And I raised the max_execution time in php.ini to 720 and  max memory
> to 16M.   When the user logs in imapd pegs the processor and it stays
> pegged.  SM in this scenario is too slow for the most patient person
> to use (many minutes).  Thoughts? Comments? Suggestions?

Check the users preferences.  See if they have the option to check ALL
folders for new mail.  If they do, that is most likely to cause an awful
strain on the IMAP server as it goes through every single folder to get the
status of that particular folder.

You might also want to double check, and see if the user has any filters
enabled via SquirrelMail... This might cause a long delay if there are a
large volume of mail in INBOX, and the user has the filters set to check
/all/ mail instead of just unread.

-- 
Jonathan Angliss
<jo...@sq...>