https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=310899
--- Comment #4 from Neil <[email protected]> --- Near as i can tell kmail2 with mboxes is a time bomb. Eventually the size of the mbox gets too big for the new infrastructure to handle and people will start getting failures. I've done a fair bit of testing and can't find a consistent threshold for when problems start but the problems always start eventually. I've mostly had success up to about 500 messages in one file but sometimes I can get up to 1000 messages before the error messages start (and sometimes the flakiness happens before 500). It might be more dependant on the size of the file (attachments, etc) rather than the number of messages. Seems the new infrastructure is WAY too precariously balanced and it's easy for a big mbox file to bring the whole house of cards down. The numerous layers of complexity also make troubleshooting real difficult if not impossible. I'm using a 500G spinning disk on a Core2 Quad 3.2Ghz machine with 4 gigs of RAM. I haven't tested on an SSD drive but I suspect a SSD will handle more messages before the failures start but the failures will still happen eventually. Best bet seems to be considering MBOXes unsupported under the new infrastructure and either convert all your folders to Maildirs or switch to something like Thunderbird or Claws that handle large mbox folders reliably. Kmail2 is definitely a step backwards. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the assignee for the bug. _______________________________________________ Kdepim-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://mail.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kdepim-bugs
