dovecot & Apple Mail & maildir & lots of Mail

[Robert Schetterer]

Am 22.11.2014 um 12:34 schrieb Thierry de Montaudry:
> Hi,
> 
> Using Mac Mail with 9 mail accounts, more than 150 folders, and 1000s of mails, I get far too many problems lately, and not only on dovecot, so I would say the problem lies with Mac Mail, and even more if you installed Yosemite. As far as I know dovecot handle very well accounts with 100000s email even if the size is very big.
> 
> And BTW, looking for a fast and reliable mail client for Mac, to replace Mac Mail, any suggestion?

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/installing-thunderbird-on-mac


> 
> Regards,
> Thierry
> 
> 
> On 22 Nov 2014, at 11:39, Peter <pch at myzel.net> wrote:
>>
>> Am 2014-11-21 um 22:52 schrieb Thomas Klausner:
>>> Hi!
>>>
>>> My Mail directory is 31G with about 180 directories, each containing
>>> mails in maildir format.
>>>
>>> Has anyone had similar issues?
>>>
>>> Is my maildir too big for dovecot too handle?
>>
>> My Maildir is 61G in 237493 messages spread over 424 folders. dovecot handles this effortlessly. "doveadm mailbox status -t all '*' -u <name>" returns almost instanly on a warm cache. Thunderbird does fine too.
>>
>> -- 
>> peter



Best Regards
MfG Robert Schetterer

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