Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
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On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote:
> Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
>> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>>> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder
>>> or mailbox. I have seen such a thing.
>>
>> does that mean I have a problem?
>>
>> A
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>
> For whatever it's worth, I'm writing this message using icedove, and
> there are currently 96179 messages in my inbox. Sorting by thread takes
> 60 seconds or so, but everything else is pretty quick (i have a
> high-bandwidth connection to the IMAP mailserver). In the past, I've
> occasionally been up over 200,000 messages in a single folder without
> any problem (other than increased slowness when doing things like
> sorting and/or searching).
With IMAP, slowness is the only issue (unless your Uni's IT dept
uses uw-imap, which uses mbox).
I still wouldn't want 96,000 emails in my Inbox.
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