Assuming your issues are client side as already suggested, when setting
up an account in Thunderbird there is an advanced/semi-hidden option to
choose between storing the local copy in either mailfile (default) or
maildir (option, with unnecessary warning about experimental nature
after several years in the software). I strongly reccommend to select
maildir format in which case the cached copies of emails are stored as
individual fles in a directory, rather than all appended to a single
enormous file which has to be loaded into memory each time you start TB,
thus massively cutting the client resource overhead.
Our organisation has had at most 20 mailboxes active at any one time,
yet my director always had trouble under outlook because he doesn't
manage his inbox and outlook stores the cached inbox in a single file
with a fixed size limit (which he was exceeding). I made the decision
about 8 years ago to move to TB configured to use maildir, and barring
periods where my director reinstalls his laptop and forgets to enable
maildir on recreating his mailbox, his system he not been brought to a
standstill by email since.
About the warning about experimental support - we are using it with
imap, even if the local copy has an issue, the server copy is still
there, besides which, it appears to have been stable for many years.
Regards
Jim
On 12/11/2022 19:22, Pongrácz István wrote:
2022. 11. 12, szombat keltezéssel 09.56-kor Adam Tauno Williams ezt írta:
On Sat, 2022-11-12 at 15:51 +0100, Simon Matter wrote:
I have a folder, where I have 163000+ emails.
Is it a lot or not?
This is accurate. The limitation is really the client.
Horde webmail or GNOME's Evolution will merrily bop around in 100,000+
message mailboxes all day long; zippity zip.
MS-Outlook and Thunderbird, in my experience, will have all kinds of
performance issues.
So it depends entirely on your client mix.
Thank all of you for your answers.
Under windows we use thunderbird. Under linux, with TB I did not
experienced big problems (besides TB itself is a mess, comparing to
evolution).
Do you recommend any user friendly imap client for windows?
Theoretically TB could be fine and more or less it is working, but
would be nice to find an alternative (not outlook).
Any candidates?
Thanks
István
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