Re: [Marketing Mail] Re: What does 'huge mailbox' means?

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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