Re: [Dovecot] Sorting a folder (by THREAD) takes a long time

On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:57 AM, Asheesh Laroia wrote:

My email workflow with Dovecot is that mail gets delivered to INBOX,
where I handle it and then move it into a folder called archive.

I have alpine set to use the Default sort of "THREAD" of a folder.
After moving a (few) mail(s) from INBOX to archive, archive takes a
long time (10-50s) to load while alpine tells me:

                    [Sorting "archive"  ... ]

How large is your INBOX? Unless you've disabled index files the
threading should go pretty fast even for thousands of messages.

But if it really is because of THREAD, you're in luck. I've almost
finished thread index implementation and I'm also considering making
it available for v1.1 as a plugin.