On 11 Jun 2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem is not qmail or your imap client nut more of a design issue. > Most filesystems have troubles with a many files in one directory and even > if this is not the case MUA often like to stat the hole mailbox first so > all files will be opened, scanned and closed and this takes some time. > > Unless your have a smart MUA the only chance is to split large directories > into many small ones.
I believe modern filesystems such as ReiserFS will handle directories with many files without problems. I'm sure benchmarks of this have been posted on Slashdot many times, it's a very popular benchmark. So the solution may be to switch filesystems. Ted
