Thomas Jacob writes:
On Fri, 2013-07-12 at 08:28 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote: > Any alleged or potential difference in response time for a particular > request does not help when the client croaks when there are hundreds of > thousands of messages, in a folder.I am not aware that of a client that can deal with these kinds of numbers in single folder also. What would be the point for an email reader intended for use by a person?
If someone's not directly paying for their mail's storage, they're simply be too lazy to purge their INBOX, or delete anything from it. Mail will continue to accumulate there, in perpetuity. They don't care, they see only the new stuff in their INBOX, up top. Stuff that scrolls off is completely forgotten about; except that they know it's there, they think it's important enough to preserve forever, but they can't be bothered to file it properly.
In that case, the diplomatic solution would be to run a script that automatically archives INBOX to a dated subdirectory, named by month/year. It's ridiculously easy to do with maildirs, as long as IMAP keywords are not used. And it's only a little bit more work, to handle those.
I haven't looked, but I'll bet that there are ton of scripts out there that will do exactly that with any IMAP server, by going in via IMAP. You'd have to steal the account's IMAP password, to do this; but there are ways around that, too.
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