Hi,

I appears that i owe you an apology for making so much noise. I trie the imapd deamon on two system which apparently suffered from exactly the same problem. After using new hardware, all is fine.

However, when investigating why netscape is so slow on my large file, i discovered something else strange. Netscape fetches the mail in blocks of 4kbyte. The courier-imapd, due to its structure, has to reread the entire mail from the beginning every time netscape requests a new block. As far as i can see is the reread mostly necessary to count the lines and convert LF to CRLF.

The question is now, why has the imapd to convert the linefeeds? I couldn't find anything in the IMAP4r1 spec. (RFC 2060) that requires an imap server to do that. The only thing i found, is that commands and responses are always terminated by CRLF, but nothing about the message body.

Did i miss something?

Have fun

Andreas