[asterisk-users] hammering imap vmail storage

[Brian J. Murrell]

On Mon, 2008-10-27 at 11:13 -0500, Mark Michelson wrote:
> 
> The behavior you are seeing is most likely due to SIP's MWI behavior in Asterisk 
> 1.4. The way it works is to poll the mailboxes every so often to see if new 
> messages are available.

Yeah, that sounds like it.

> 2. If you want to make MWI checks more infrequent, you can change the checkmwi 
> option in sip.conf to be something other than the default. checkmwi defaults to 
> checking the server for new messages every 10 seconds. If you set this to be 
> something like 60, this should ease the load somewhat.

Sweet.  This seems to have done the trick!

I guess ultimately some caching between the IMAP server and the SIP MWI
would be nice.  Probably that's what the poll* features of newer
app_voicemail's do.

Thanx for the suggestion!

b.

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