Really slow IMAP performance

[Joseph Tam]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2018, Neil Jerram wrote:

> My INBOX file has 22990 messages.  Is the slowness that I am seeing
> definitely expected for an mbox of that size?  (It may also be relevant
> that the HDD it's stored on is pretty old now, and has been known to
> report SMART errors...)

Yeah, a copy of that mailbox will be that slow, esp. if the messages
have large attachments.  Even a simple operation like deleting/expunging the
the first message will cause data shuffling of the entire mailbox.

Joseph Tam <jtam.home at gmail.com>