Ron Johnson wrote:
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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? AFor 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).
No, we use dovecot which stores email files in Maildir format on the server. Thanks for clarifying that though, as I hadn't the energy to scroll up this rather long thread to see that that was the issue under discussion.
I still wouldn't want 96,000 emails in my Inbox.
Yeah, lots of people tell me that :-] I find that it works pretty well for me though, ~c
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