Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox

[Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming]

I would prefer to use Outlook as I have Microsoft Office desktop apps.

Regards,

Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming
Targeted Individual in Singapore
20 Apr 2022 Wednesday



On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 22:12, Shawn Heisey <elyograg at elyograg.org> wrote:
>
> On 4/20/22 07:51, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:
> > I believe Gmail is using IMAP. The instructions for configuring Gmail
> > email accounts in Outlook specifically mention IMAP server hostname:
> >
> > imap.gmail.com
> >
> > TCP Port 993, SSL
>
> Indeed you CAN use IMAP with gmail.  For work, I mostly use my email
> (which is gmail-based) via Thunderbird, with IMAP.  I am familiar with it.
>
> But if I use the Gmail app for Android or the gmail website, I feel
> absolutely certain that those applications are NOT using IMAP.  Chances
> are that they use protocols developed by Google.
>
> Regarding your next email on this thread, the initial sync of a large
> number of messages via IMAP does take a really long time. But once the
> initial sync is complete, syncing the differences is very fast.  The big
> problem with accessing a large folder via a webmail app like Roundcube
> is that it never sets up a local copy of the mailbox.  I actually don't
> know where the copy of all those message headers resides ... whether it
> is in the PHP interpreter or in the browser.  But it's not persisted to
> disk as it would be with a more traditional IMAP client such as Thunderbird.
>
> Thanks,
> Shawn
>