Re: slow IMAP connection
Tim Mooney <[email protected]>
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In regard to: Re: [Imap-uw] slow IMAP connection, Bob Atkins said (at...: > The only way to fix the slow I/O problem, especially with large mail boxes is > to convert to mix format. mbx format is only marginally better than mbox from > a performance standpoint. This is from my personal experience of having mail > boxes with 40,000+ messages and >2GB in size. This brings up a question I've had: both traditional format and MBX run into issues when they cross the 2 GiB boundary, because of signedness issues in the UW code. I realize a MIX folder is composed of multiple files, but does that mean that the 2 GiB is not a problem for MIX? Tim