I have that problem too. But only when there the account has a lot of e-mail in it. A nearly empty account is fast. The problem is that the IMAP server is slow. The way to verify this is to run top in a teminal window and then check mail. You'll see all the wait time is due to slow IMAP. I'm running UW IMAP so I thought I'd do a little research to see if Courier or some other IMAP server solves the problem. My research shows that possibly another one is a little faster but the problem doesn't go away with any of them. My personal account has the most mail in it on my system and I have setup an archiving scheme where I subscribe (in the Folders menu) to my archive hierarchy, them move as much mail as I can to the various archive directories then unsubscribe from the archive hierarchy. that way I still have access to mail-list mail and sent mail if I need to search it by just subscribing to the part of the archive tree as needed then unsubscribing when done. The other thing that I do is set the check mail time to as high as is available - 20 minutes or don't check mail at all since it is only the mail checking that bogs down. I sure would like a solution to this problem too. I have wondered if mail checking could be limited to only the portions of the mail folder tree that haven't been checked or haven't been checked since the last log in. Apparently, this behavior is normal and some say that IMAP usage, say with SM, just must be limited to when you are away from your main location where you can POP mail. If there is little or no e-mail in your mail tree, SM (and other IMAP users) are satisfactorily fast. The problem with this idea is that POP only gets mail in the INBOX and not the other folders. So you'd have to disable filtering and move all the contents of all the flders you want to POP to the INBOX. That's too much bother for me so I just live with slow performance. Keep in mind that slowness is limited to checking mail and to some degree the address book. I have wondered how Yahoo, Hotmail, Gmail and the other big ones handle the problem. They are pretty fast. Especially Gmail is fast. On Mon, September 25, 2006 9:21 am, Alan in Toronto wrote: > SquirrelMail 1.4.6 > PHP 4.4.4 > UWIMAPD (IMAP4rev1 2004.357-cpanel) > Apache 1.3.37 > CentOS 4.4 > Our webserver runs as nobody. > IMAP Server Address: 127.0.0.1 > > Many plugins, including: Auto Complete; Folder Synch; Select Range; etc. > I ran configtest, and it reports: "Congratulations, your SquirrelMail > setup looks fine to me!" > > My SquirrelMail has become so painfully slow that it is often > unusable, and often it fails and displays "page not found" error pages > in the folder list frame, the message list frame, or both frames. > > SquirrelMail was fine before about 3 or 4 weeks ago, and I have made > no changes to SquirrelMail in that time. I rent space on a shared web > server, and I'm sure there have been changes to the server config in > that time. However, the server loads are normal and the support guys > can't find anything to explain the SM slowness. > > The problem is not with any individual mail account. This problem > exists no matter which mail account I use. > > Please give me some idea of what the problem could be, or what to > check, or what server config/admin I should ask the web host tech > support to check. Thanks for any help. > > -- Paul A. Franz, P.E. PAF Consulting Engineers Office 425.641.8202 FAX 425.641.1773 Cell 425.241.1618 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users
