Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: What does 'huge mailbox' means?

[Jim Wallis <jwallis@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

    Assuming your issues are client side as already suggested, when
    setting up an account in Thunderbird there is an
    advanced/semi-hidden option to choose between storing the local copy
    in either mailfile (default) or maildir (option, with unnecessary
    warning about experimental nature after several years in the
    software). I strongly reccommend to select maildir format in which
    case the cached copies of emails are stored as individual fles in a
    directory, rather than all appended to a single enormous file which
    has to be loaded into memory each time you start TB, thus massively
    cutting the client resource overhead. 

    Our organisation has had at most 20 mailboxes active at any one
    time, yet my director always had trouble under outlook because he
    doesn't manage his inbox and outlook stores the cached inbox in a
    single file with a fixed size limit (which he was exceeding). I made
    the decision about 8 years ago to move to TB configured to use
    maildir, and barring periods where my director reinstalls his laptop
    and forgets to enable maildir on recreating his mailbox, his system
    he not been brought to a standstill by email since. 

    About the warning about experimental support - we are using it with
    imap, even if the local copy has an issue, the server copy is still
    there, besides which, it appears to have been stable for many years.

    Regards
    Jim

On 12/11/2022 19:22, Pongrácz István wrote:

2022. 11. 12, szombat keltezéssel 09.56-kor Adam Tauno Williams ezt írta:

On Sat, 2022-11-12 at 15:51 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:

I have a folder, where I have 163000+ emails.

Is it a lot or not?

This is accurate.   The limitation is really the client.

Horde webmail or GNOME's Evolution will merrily bop around in 100,000+

message mailboxes all day long; zippity zip.

MS-Outlook and Thunderbird, in my experience, will have all kinds of

performance issues.

So it depends entirely on your client mix.

Thank all of you for your answers.

Under windows we use thunderbird. Under linux, with TB I did not experienced big problems (besides TB itself is a mess, comparing to evolution).

Do you recommend any user friendly imap client for windows?

Theoretically TB could be fine and more or less it is working, but would be nice to find an alternative (not outlook).

Any candidates?

Thanks 

István

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