Hey Tomas, thanks for the followup. My comments are inlined. > > I was wondering if there were any tests that the QA team > > contributers to squirrel mail run as to how many messages / size > > of a mailbox squirrel mail can handle. > > > > It seems that right around the 10k message mark milestone, users > > report their experience accessing squirrel mail gets 'slow'. I've > > researched this online and I found that this is resolved with > > some solutions mentioned online, namely the imapproxy software > > package or enabling thread and server sort in config. > > Thread sorting does not improve performance. It adds new option that might be > slow or cause issues on larger mailboxes. That's what I read online when people reported performance improvements so Thanks for clearing that up. So enabling server sort does improve performance, however? > > > After that 10k mark, I'm not sure what the limits are to mailbox > > sizes / number of messages that people encounter. I'm also > > curious to user's methods of resolution of the problem once they > > reach the next milestone. > > Missing bits of information. > > Used mailbox type? Use IMAP server? List of enabled SquirrelMail plugins? Your > 'uptime' and 'free' output on Unix or some statistics that show > CPU, memory and > swap utilization on Windows. I was just wondering if there is some limit that people reach, or if the squirrelmail team does any stress testing of the software. -- ______________________________________________ IndiaInfo Mail - the free e-mail service with a difference! www.indiainfo.com Check out our value-added Premium features, such as an extra 20MB for mail storage, POP3, e-mail forwarding, and ads-free mailboxes! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by the 2008 JavaOne(SM) Conference Don't miss this year's exciting event. There's still time to save $100. Use priority code J8TL2D2. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;198757673;13503038;p?http://java.sun.com/javaone ----- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting guidelines: http://squirrelmail.org/postingguidelines List address: squirrelmail-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx List archives: http://news.gmane.org/gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List info (subscribe/unsubscribe/change options): https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users