dovecot & Apple Mail & maildir & lots of Mail

[Jeroen Scheerder]

MailMate!


> On 22 nov. 2014, at 12:34, Thierry de Montaudry <thierry at odry.net> wrote:
> 
> 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?
> 
> 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.
>> 
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