On 11/18/2016 1:50 PM, Steve Litt slitt@troubleshooters.com wrote:
On Fri, 18 Nov 2016 08:14:02 -0500 Tanstaafl tanstaafl@libertytrek.org wrote:
On 11/17/2016 10:58 AM, Steve Litt slitt@troubleshooters.com wrote:
I have over 620K emails in over 1000 folders. This turns Thunderbird into an all day affair, just to refresh its caches.
There are lots of knobs you can tweak to improve the situation, but the bottom line is - 1,000 folders (really?!?), 650,000 emails - well... this is going to be a problem for almost any client.
It wasn't a problem for Kmail, before the disastrous conversion to Kmail2. It wasn't a problem with Claws-Mail (I'm leaving Claws for non-technical reasons).
Let me clarify - I have no way of knowing if Thunderbird would choke due to the incredibly large number of folders. The number of emails is much less the problem.
I have maybe 50 folders, and maybe 200,000 total emails, and don't have any performance issues, unless (and even then they are minor and temporary) I'm setting up a new/fresh profile (takes a while for header downloads), or repairing a folder with a lot of messages.
I'm trying for the life of me to see a use case for anywhere close to 1,000 folders, and am failing. That would be a major problem just from the human side. How do you find anything?
But, to each their own, you must have a way of dealing with it that suits you.