Doubt if there is any answer to this but will ask anyway. Have a few pop3 accounts with thousands of messages. Its slow when checking email naturally. Are there any tweaks to speed it up? I imagine there is an exchange of the message and header list which is the slow down. Too bad the list could not be compressed with gzip or something first. I think http has an option similar to that. Just asking.
> Doubt if there is any answer to this but will ask anyway. ?Have a few > pop3 accounts with thousands of messages. ?Its slow when checking > email naturally. ?Are there any tweaks to speed it up? ?I imagine > there is an exchange of the message and header list which is the slow > down. ?Too bad the list could not be compressed with gzip or something > first. ?I think http has an option similar to that. > > Just asking. >I am running Maildir format on CentOS 5.x 64bit with Ext3 on raid1. Often wander if Ext4 would have been better.
On 8/22/2011 6:42 PM, Matt wrote:> Doubt if there is any answer to this but will ask anyway. Have a few > pop3 accounts with thousands of messages. Its slow when checking > email naturally. Are there any tweaks to speed it up? I imagine > there is an exchange of the message and header list which is the slow > down. Too bad the list could not be compressed with gzip or something > first. I think http has an option similar to that. > > Just asking.IMAP is a far better choice if you want to leave messages up on the server. (XFS or ext4 plus using Maildir storage format on the server can also be a big help. But unless you have evidence that the disks are buried or the server's CPU is busy, those changes may not help at all. A good and quick tool on Linux servers to monitor that is "atop".)