Richard Hobbs wrote:
That's also good to know... i like to do a job right instead of relying on faster hardware, as i'm sure you all do too, but it's good to know that if i make one or two "non-optimal" choices along the way, it'll probably be lightning fast anyway!
The main complaint we have from users is that their IMAP Inbox, with 5000 emails in it takes ages to appear, and no amount of coaxing will convince them to split their inbox into multiple folders.
Most of my mailing list folders that I work with on a daily basis like NANOG (over 20,000) and cisco-nsp (over 35,000) are no slower than folders with a handful of messages in them. It's not a private server either, it's the same one my customers use. If you're seeing a slowdown at 5k messages, either your server is woefully underpowered or something isn't quite right.
~Seth