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

2022. 11. 14, hétfő keltezéssel 09.37-kor Jim Wallis ezt írta:
> 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
> 

Thank you Jim,

I forgot to mention, we do not pull full emails from server, so, there
is no local copy.
It just could produce more problems.

Suddenly, our 1.3TByte emails could be easily 2-3TByte, as our users
like to send CC to their colleagues, so, 1 copy on server could cause
4-5 copies on clients.

Fortunately my experience with TB accessing folder with 163000 emails
is pretty quick, no problem. (I don't like TB, I think it is a crap,
but this is my private opinion, nobody cares).

It seems I only have performance problem with imapsync, when I have to
migrate some users' thousands of folders into one big folder and on
every source folder triggers a full crawling headers of the big folder,
which takes time.

I was just curious, what is others' experience with such a large amount
of folders.

Thanks!
István


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