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Mail-IMAPClient (3.16)

Severe performance problems with large number of messages. Looks like it's re-reading the mailbox too often. To reproduce try a mailbox with 700 messages. It may also be a problem with new messages arriving while doing a mailbox listing which causes it to refresh the mailbox. I'm not real familiar with IMAP.

Kit Bard - 2009-05-20 15:40:20
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Mail-IMAPClient (3.18)

The module behaved largely as I expected and performed correctly and robustly to search, retrieve, and delete mail from the server under a variety of requirements. At the time of writing, this seems to be the best documented and most useful module for dealing with IMAP on CPAN.

With reference to Florian Knell's review about the speed of the module, I believe this is a server-side issue and not the module's fault at all.

BKB - 2009-02-03 17:29:47
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Mail-IMAPClient (2.2.9)

I have a couple of moderately busy Postfix servers that spew a large amount of admin messages concerning incoming traffic that is bounced or rejected for various reasons. There is too much to handle manually, so I wrote a program using Mail::IMAPClient to go through the folders where these messages are stored, and delete all the simple cases that I don't care about (and writing a one-line summary about the transaction to a log file for later perusal).

This helps reduce the size of the IMAP folders and what is left are the potentially tricky messages that may require more careful investigation.

Mail::IMAPClient handled the aspects of connecting to the server and bringing each message (header and body) to my program in a straight-forward manner. The documentation was easy to understand, and all the functionality I needed to use was "just there".

I don't know what the other IMAP modules on CPAN are worth, but this one is quite probably all you need.

David Landgren - 2007-04-05 03:09:56
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Mail-IMAPClient (2.2.9)

Works fine but on larger mailboxes very slow :-( I'm thinking about forking to diffrent child processes to handle this.

Florian Knell - 2004-11-27 01:31:47
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Mail-IMAPClient (2.2.9)

brilliant!

Jean-Michel Hiver - 2004-04-07 04:50:12
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Mail-IMAPClient (2.2.8)

I haved used this module for everything from migrating our 65k user base from a VMS mail server to developing a custom web interface to the local IMAP servers. I would reccomend this to anyone doing any kind of IMAP related work.

Joe Breeden - 2003-09-03 11:09:20
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