[imapfilter-devel] imapfilter stressing mail server

[Josh Cronemeyer]

Hi,

Recently i've moved over to an amd64 macine.  I'm running fc3, imapfilter v. 
1.0.1.  Previously I was running a 32 bit debian macine but the same version 
of imapfilter.

After the switch I noticed that my filters were taking much more time to 
finish.  After running with the -d switch I got the following output:
	1013 OK [READ-WRITE] Completed^M

	sending command (4):

	516E70 (null)SEARCH ^M

	getting response (4):

	516E70 BAD Null command^M

	getting response (4):

	* OK heracles Cyrus IMAP4 v2.1.9 server ready^M

	sending command (4):

At the point where the null search is attempted the process pauses for a long 
time.  I have run the same config.lua on my old machine and that null search 
never happens.  When I remove that line from the config.lua I get the null 
search somewhere else later on, so I am pretty confident it isn't a problem 
with my config file.    

Also we have recently begun to have problems with the load on our mailserver.  
This problem appeared about the same time as our staff were moving over to 
amd64 workstations.  It seems to me that when imapfilters hangs for a minute 
or so it is pulling alot of cycles on the mailserver.

Any ideas?  My only thought is that there is some 64 bit issue happening here 
(*sigh* it is always some 64 bit issue these days).

thanks in advance

-- 
Josh Cronemeyer
Information Network of Kansas