Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search fos r anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox

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-------- Original message --------From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <ceo.teo.en.ming at gmail.com> Date: 20/04/2022  16.51  (GMT+02:00) To: Shawn Heisey <elyograg at elyograg.org> Cc: ceo at teo-en-ming-corp.com, Dovecot <dovecot at dovecot.org> Subject: Re: Bad Signature - Both Roundcube and Squirrelmail webmail cannot search for anything + cannot open many emails because there are more than 200, 000 emails in my Inbox I believe Gmail is using IMAP. The instructions for configuring Gmailemail accounts in Outlook specifically mention IMAP server hostname:imap.gmail.comTCP Port 993, SSLRegards,Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En MingTargeted Individual in Singapore20 Apr 2022 WednesdayOn Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 09:26, Shawn Heisey <elyograg at elyograg.org> wrote:>> On 4/19/2022 5:12 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:> > It is not true that no email system was ever designed for 200,000 or> > more emails.> >> > If I did not remember wrongly, more than 10 years ago, I used to have> > a Gmail email account, with 4-5 MILLION email messages in the Inbox.> > There was no problem searching even though I had 4-5 MILLION email> > messages in the Inbox.>> If you were using either a Google app or the gmail.com website to access> that inbox, then it doesn't compare.  I really doubt that either of> those uses the IMAP protocol.  They would be using something proprietary> that is highly optimized for the way that Google stores data and> leverages the enormous amounts of computing power that they maintain.>> I would bet that if you accessed a gmail folder with 5 million messages> in it using IMAP, you would have similar problems with it to those that> have been described here in this thread.  IMAP is a beautiful protocol,> but I don't think it was designed for handling that many messages.>> Thanks,> Shawn>
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