Re: imap server slow

[Matt Rowley <matt@streampipe.com>]

If your mailboxes are big, that could be the cause.  UW-imap reads the 
whole bloody mbox into memory.  Try another imap daemon, like courier. 
See if that changes anything.

--Matt

--On Tuesday, March 05, 2002 10:06 AM +1100 "Oliver_Bode@kaz.com.au" 
<Oliver_Bode@kaz.com.au> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I've just upgraded to 3.0 and got uw-imap from ports. I am finding
> that connecting to the imap server is extremely slow - connecting and
> downloading can take up to 3 minutes on outlook express. Imp can't
> connect at all to the server through imap. SSH, FTP and POP are all
> working fine.
>
> I still have some things to try, but was wondering if anyone can share
> their thoughts on what is going wrong.
>
> Oliver