Rich Pieri wrote: > On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:32:30 -0700 > Kent Borg <kentb...@borg.org> wrote: > > > I've tried copying a big offline Thunderbird mailbox to a live > > Dovecot server, and it worked for the first 11,880 messages, but now > > won't do any more. I know Dovecot can handle more because this came > > from an earlier instance of Dovecot. > > Dovecot can handle tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of messages in a > mail folder. You don't specify which backend Dovecot is using: mbox or > Maildir. If you're using mbox then you may be hitting a timeout: > scanning the the mbox file takes longer than the server-side connection > timeout.
I had a user with over a million messages in a single Dovecot-accessed maildir. Eventually I persuaded them to let me break it down by year into separate Maildirs... -dsr- _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list Discuss@lists.blu.org https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
