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carl
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PostPosted: Thu May 08, 2003 6:15 pm    Post subject: Slow Squirrelmail? Try this! Reply with quote

After upgrading to Squirrelmail 1.4.0 (masked, but in Portage), I was still dissatisfied with the overall speed. The login page, display preferences, and everyhing else non-mail-specific loaded quickly and perfectly, but opening folders or messages and even just viewing the first screen was slower than I could tolerate.

Then I found this page on the Squirrelmail site. It indicates that, for computers on which both Squirrelmail and the IMAP server reside, that "localhost" should not be used in server settings -- use 127.0.0.1 instead.

I tried it, and lo and behold it worked! Everything loads nice and quickly for me, and I'm a happy camper.

I just wanted to pass that along to those people who might be having trouble. :D
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PostPosted: Fri May 09, 2003 3:16 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Great tip, that helped me too! Thanks.. :)
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PostPosted: Sat May 10, 2003 2:35 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

nice tip :)

u got more tips like that?
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PostPosted: Thu May 15, 2003 11:44 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

whoot! you da man!

This not only made mine faster, but it fixed a problem I was having with Squirrelmail chrooted. It wouldn't save preferences or identities. I did as you suggested (changing localhost to 127.0.0.1), and it was faster, but better yet, I could logout and back in and see my preferences! Ooooh, pretty themes!:)
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PostPosted: Tue Apr 05, 2005 1:42 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Greetings!

Something else I helped myself with to speed up squirrelmail. I found out that at it performs automatic purge on every action. Now in the 1300 messages I have and several "deleted", the slow remote server just wasnt much of a help at the "purge" command - it never purged. So, instead of clean up once and then never again it kept on purging the messages - that took about 5-6 seconds. After I removed automatic purge option, the thing started running like clockworks. Opensource saves the day again :wink:

Server is Netscape Communicator (i think) and it runs on 300-400MHz Pentium class machine.

edit: Changed "Linux saves the day again" to "Opensource.."
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