I don't think I've ever encountered the slowness you are reporting. As a test I just opened a mailbox that has ~5500 messages (~44mb in the message file on the server), pulled all ~5500 messages. I encountered no sluggishness issues going through the message list or opening any random message from anywhere in the list.
One note, this was the archive of a (mostly) text-only mailing list, so it's possible you are encountering html rendering issues, but I don't remember any issues on mailboxes that have a lot of html-encoded messages. I did this on a: Samsung Note Edge (basically a Note-5, but with the edge screen) Android 5.0.1 2.7 GHz Quad Core Processor 3GB RAM What is your device, and its specs? > Date: Thursday, August 13, 2015 15:46:39 -0700 > From: Moop <[email protected]> > > Thing is, the interface is even slow for me when I set this *Local > folder* size to 25 or even 10 messages. The setting does not seem > to matter, as long as K-9 tries to work with a large inbox (even > without loading the messages), K-9 slows right down. > > On Thursday, 13 August 2015 16:39:23 UTC+2, Rodrigo Lopez wrote: >> >> As I am using POP3 accounts, there is a parameter in "Fetching >> mail" named "Local folder size". The bigger that number, the >> slower the GUI gets for me. Now it is set to 500, and the GUI is >> laggy. >> >> So, probably your assumption is right, K-9 has problems dealing >> with big mailboxes. I wonder why there is an option for 10.000 >> local folder size... >> >> On Thursday, August 13, 2015 at 3:00:02 AM UTC+2, Moop wrote: >>> >>> On Wednesday, 12 August 2015 16:04:48 UTC+2, Rodrigo Lopez wrote: >>>> >>>> Exactly same issue here, which is your local folder size? >>>> >>> >>> I am not sure what you mean exactly, but your comment has given >>> me an idea. When I load my main account with many thousands of >>> e-mails and also lots of unread mails, I get slow performance. >>> When I load an account with few e-mails and not so many unread >>> mails I get good performance. This even happens when I limit >>> the fetching to the past two weeks, or to 25 mails. This is all >>> using IMAP. >>> >>> It seems K-9 has trouble with dealing with a mailbox with a >>> large volume of mail, even if only a small portion of this mail >>> is loaded. >>> -- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the K-9 Mail Users List. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, email [email protected] To report an issue with K-9 Mail, visit http://code.google.com/p/k9mail/issues/list For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/k-9-mail --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "K-9 Mail" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
