Bug 86594
| Summary: | imap is very slow under Linux | ||||||
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| Product: | [Retired] Red Hat Linux | Reporter: | Brad <bradb> | ||||
| Component: | imap | Assignee: | John Dennis <jdennis> | ||||
| Status: | CLOSED WONTFIX | QA Contact: | David Lawrence <dkl> | ||||
| Severity: | medium | Docs Contact: | |||||
| Priority: | medium | ||||||
| Version: | 7.3 | CC: | wtogami | ||||
| Target Milestone: | --- | ||||||
| Target Release: | --- | ||||||
| Hardware: | i686 | ||||||
| OS: | Linux | ||||||
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| Fixed In Version: | Doc Type: | Bug Fix | |||||
| Doc Text: | Story Points: | --- | |||||
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| Last Closed: | 2004-09-20 03:38:57 UTC | Type: | --- | ||||
| Regression: | --- | Mount Type: | --- | ||||
| Documentation: | --- | CRM: | |||||
| Verified Versions: | Category: | --- | |||||
| oVirt Team: | --- | RHEL 7.3 requirements from Atomic Host: | |||||
| Cloudforms Team: | --- | Target Upstream Version: | |||||
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Created attachment 90720 [details]
Detailed description of the problem
This is a well known problem that cannot be fixed. imap is a terrible mail server. Switch to dovecot or cyrus-imapd which ships with FC2+ if you want fast and reliable POP3 or IMAP4 servers. |
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.9 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20030314 Description of problem: Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): imap-2001a-10.src.rpm How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Check mail with a Linux imap client 2. Wait 3. Wait... Actual Results: After a LONG time (minutes), the mailbox contents are reported Expected Results: Should happen within 1 second. Additional info: See attachment