[Dovecot] Max IMAP fodlers

[Timo Sirainen]

On Mon, 2009-12-07 at 11:24 -0800, Jeffrey Nikoletich wrote:
> Is there a way to limit the amount of maildir folders a user can have? 

No.

> Also is there is hard limit on the amount of folders dovecot can
> handle? I have a user who has over 3000 folder (including subfolders)
> that is having issues with delays in loading, moving, and deleting
> messages.

I guess you're using Maildir++, so all of the folders are in the one
Maildir root directory? That's probably the main reason why it's slow.
With v1.1+ you could switch to fs layout, so that the subfolders would
no longer be in the root directory.

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