[imp] Slowness with big mailboxes

[Paul Fielding]

Quoting Jon Parise <jon@horde.org>:

> There's really no way around it at the moment.  You might try
> looking at an IMAP proxy, such as Perdition:

But I guess my question is, no way around what?

It seems to me that it isn't just an 'accepted problem'.  I'm experiencing a 
slow down on big mailboxes, other people aren't.  Obviously this means that 
there should be something I can change in my system that should remedy the 
situation.  Perhaps an OS issue, perhaps an IMP issue, perhaps my hardware 
simply isn't beefy enough and I need to upgrade it. (Just how much horsepower 
does IMP need to connect to a mailserver and server out big mailboxes quickly? 
Mine's a Pentium class box).

<shrug>  I'm just trying to understand what the problem actually is...

regards,

Paul