[...] because I store "useful" messages in much more well organized folder categories (from 10 to 500 messages per folder typically) so I can find what I'm looking for quickly when I need it, rather than searching a 10,000 or 100,000 message folder for 1 message.
Average users don't really know what to do. They delete messages
(even "good" ones) when their archive grows beyond what their tools
(i.e. client+connection+server) can manage.
How many people actually use and have need to access 10-20,000 messages *actively* over and over from just 1, single, solitary folder? I mean, really?!
This question is really the moral answer to this thread: whoever does so
is not being well supported. The technical answer is beyond IMAP protocol.
Sam already did a timid proposal by letting the web client create monthly
directories for archiving purposes. That solution does not compress
unused e-mail messages, doesn't even record which messages are being
read, nor how often they give positive search results. Does not record
what messages are spam. All that is not relly the job of an imap server,
it is a mail archiver. I don't have one, I rarely see a good one, and I
never heard about using such a tool for private mail.
Will Courier have an integrated archiver, one day?
Ciao
Ale
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