On Tuesday, November 16, 2010 02:53:44 pm Simon Amor wrote: > On 16 Nov 2010, at 13:38, Adam Tauno Williams wrote: > > Our largest quota's a 4GB; without any issues. > > > > I think the issue you will encounter first is clients will start to > > fall > > down when folders exceed a 'reasonable' number of messages. Common > > IMAP > > clients I've seen start to exhibit severe performance issues beyond a > > few hundred thousand messages. > > Is that with the server and client on the same LAN or with the client > on a low speed WAN connection? We find that 50,000 messages in a > folder is more than enough to make Thunderbird/Outlook unresponsive > for minutes at a time when connecting to a remote server. > You may like Kontact, in these cases. Having a 36 GB online email archive myself... I find Kontact to work best with the large numbers. Kind regards, Jeroen van Meeuwen -- Senior Engineer, Kolab Systems AG e: vanmeeuwen@xxxxxxxxxxxx t: +316 42 801 403 w: http://www.kolabsys.com pgp: 9342 BF08 |
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