Re: Does anyone allow unlimited or extremely large quotas?

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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

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