-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:21, charlie derr wrote: > Andrew Sackville-West wrote: >> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >>> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder >>> or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. >> >> does that mean I have a problem? >> >> A >> > > For whatever it's worth, I'm writing this message using icedove, and > there are currently 96179 messages in my inbox. Sorting by thread takes > 60 seconds or so, but everything else is pretty quick (i have a > high-bandwidth connection to the IMAP mailserver). In the past, I've > occasionally been up over 200,000 messages in a single folder without > any problem (other than increased slowness when doing things like > sorting and/or searching).
With IMAP, slowness is the only issue (unless your Uni's IT dept uses uw-imap, which uses mbox). I still wouldn't want 96,000 emails in my Inbox. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1NSLS9HxQb37XmcRAt9YAJ0Wcf1MjkMv5GuD8UQYXKVewrYjigCbBlLH 25wnmyt4qAonrLyVbRU7dMw= =dRBO -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
