On 15 Jun 2008, at 15:15, Shawn wrote: > >> There is no need to delete email when you use IMAP; email doesn't >> use that much space, and, unless you use a terrible client, >> nothing will slow down from having mail going back forever. > > Tell that to the IT department at work. They've recently lowered > our email storage limits on the M$ exchange servers.
What part of "unless you use terrible [software]" don't you understand? ;) Exchange stores large numbers of messages in a single binary file (I think the *whole* message store for the server, or the whole message store for each user). So one can easily imagine performance constraints would exist reading messages into memory which would not bother a proper IMAP server loading a single text file from disk. Stroller. _______________________________________________ Openmoko community mailing list [email protected] http://lists.openmoko.org/mailman/listinfo/community
