[imp] IMAP folders with >9555 Messages...

[Timo Boettcher]

Hi Michael,

Nachricht vom Donnerstag, 27. Februar 2003, 20:31:04:

> Quoting "Gerhard W. Recher" <hostmaster at netpilot.net>:
> | is where a limitation on the # of messages in a Imap folder ?
> |
> | i greped through imap200b header files and all hore/imp files but
> | i do not found anything.
> |
> | if i create a rule to move out messages from this big folder in
> | another folder, imp will show me in the original folder deleted
> | messages...
> |
> | ... but if you now say purge them !, nothing happens after a long
> | while.... but the destination folder has been populatet with exakt
> | these selectet messages out of the rule.
> |
> | .. have i missed something ?
>
> An IMAP mailbox with 9555 Messages is going to be horribly slow on
> all but the most top-end hardware.

I have TheBat! running on my Desktop with a total of about 70.000
messages in various folders (mostly list-mail, sorted by lists).
I am planning to move my mails on a dedicated mailserver running
postfix/courier/apache/imp/openldap on p2-400 with 256mb ram. What
problems should I expect with that numbers of messages?
Or should I just drop my list-mail-archives and rely on the normal
archives? (I know, I probably should do that anyway, but...)


 Timo