> On 10. May 2020, at 11.22, Peter <p...@myzel.net> wrote:
>
> Am 10.05.20 um 09:54 schrieb Sami Ketola:
>>> On 10. May 2020, at 1.51, Peter <p...@myzel.net> wrote:
>>> Am 10.05.20 um 00:22 schrieb Daniel Miller:
>>>> Thank you - I'm aware of the virtual folder option and do use it. My
>>>> interest is for a Windows client, EM Client, which I otherwise really
>>>> enjoy. Unfortunately, they've implemented server-side searching only via
>>>> MULTISEARCH - for reasons passing my understanding. So I was hoping to
>>>> hear Dovecot either already had support or there were plans to implement
>>>> it.
>>>
>>> Virtual folder does not scale. Thank you for naming a client that does
>>> multisearch!
>> Virtual folder scales just fine. What makes you think it does not?
>> We have customers that have users with thousand folders and millions of
>> emails and still virtual folder scales.
>
> Hello Sami, I was thinking, that the client then will be overwhelmed with a
> mailbox of such a size?
>
> Or does the folder start empty and only gets populated upon search with the
> resulting mails?
virtual folder with contents of all actual folders is usually hidden from imap
clients and is used only for searching.
Sami
