In this case it is a Snapdragon 410 (1,2 GHz quad core) paired with 2 GB or 
RAM and Android 4.4.4 on a 720P screen. However, just hardware performance 
can be pretty much excluded as a cause. Not only do smaller inboxes with an 
equal amount of messages displayed (so the number of messages phone side 
should be equal) have no issues, two other mail programs have no trouble 
running the same large mail box without any lag. If anything at all, there 
are some settings somewhere that cause an insubordinate amount of 
processing to be done. This phone can and should run this workload with 
absolute ease and, in fact, it does run it with ease. Just not in K-9.

There is a rather high number of unread messages, I am not sure that might 
make any difference.



On Friday, 14 August 2015 02:18:33 UTC+2, Richard wrote:
>
> 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] <javascript:>> 
> > 
> > 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. 
> >>> 
>   
>

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