Re: How many messages is squirrelmail designed to handle?

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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.

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