Richard Hobbs wrote: > > That's also good to know... i like to do a job right instead of relying > on faster hardware, as i'm sure you all do too, but it's good to know > that if i make one or two "non-optimal" choices along the way, it'll > probably be lightning fast anyway! > > The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with > 5000 emails in it takes ages to appear, and no amount of coaxing will > convince them to split their inbox into multiple folders. >
Most of my mailing list folders that I work with on a daily basis like NANOG (over 20,000) and cisco-nsp (over 35,000) are no slower than folders with a handful of messages in them. It's not a private server either, it's the same one my customers use. If you're seeing a slowdown at 5k messages, either your server is woefully underpowered or something isn't quite right. ~Seth
