<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div dir="auto"> xxzf<b>zzxxxz</b></div><div dir="auto">Z</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div id="composer_signature" dir="auto"><div style="font-size:12px;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Galaxy</div></div><div dir="auto">s fcc<i>cc <b> </b></i></div><div><br></div><div align="left" dir="auto" style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming <ceo.teo.en.ming@gmail.com> </div><div>Date: 20/04/2022 16.51 (GMT+02:00) </div><div>To: Shawn Heisey <elyograg@elyograg.org> </div><div>Cc: ceo@teo-en-ming-corp.com, Dovecot <dovecot@dovecot.org> </div><div>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 </div><div><br></div></div>I believe Gmail is using IMAP. The instructions for configuring Gmail<br>email accounts in Outlook specifically mention IMAP server hostname:<br><br>imap.gmail.com<br><br>TCP Port 993, SSL<br><br>Regards,<br><br>Mr. Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming<br>Targeted Individual in Singapore<br>20 Apr 2022 Wednesday<br><br><br>On Wed, 20 Apr 2022 at 09:26, Shawn Heisey <elyograg@elyograg.org> wrote:<br>><br>> On 4/19/2022 5:12 PM, Turritopsis Dohrnii Teo En Ming wrote:<br>> > It is not true that no email system was ever designed for 200,000 or<br>> > more emails.<br>> ><br>> > If I did not remember wrongly, more than 10 years ago, I used to have<br>> > a Gmail email account, with 4-5 MILLION email messages in the Inbox.<br>> > There was no problem searching even though I had 4-5 MILLION email<br>> > messages in the Inbox.<br>><br>> If you were using either a Google app or the gmail.com website to access<br>> that inbox, then it doesn't compare. I really doubt that either of<br>> those uses the IMAP protocol. They would be using something proprietary<br>> that is highly optimized for the way that Google stores data and<br>> leverages the enormous amounts of computing power that they maintain.<br>><br>> I would bet that if you accessed a gmail folder with 5 million messages<br>> in it using IMAP, you would have similar problems with it to those that<br>> have been described here in this thread. IMAP is a beautiful protocol,<br>> but I don't think it was designed for handling that many messages.<br>><br>> Thanks,<br>> Shawn<br>><br></body></html>