On Mon, 2 Jun 2025 07:32:30 -0700 Kent Borg <[email protected]> wrote:
> I've tried copying a big offline Thunderbird mailbox to a live > Dovecot server, and it worked for the first 11,880 messages, but now > won't do any more. I know Dovecot can handle more because this came > from an earlier instance of Dovecot. Dovecot can handle tens (maybe hundreds) of thousands of messages in a mail folder. You don't specify which backend Dovecot is using: mbox or Maildir. If you're using mbox then you may be hitting a timeout: scanning the the mbox file takes longer than the server-side connection timeout. It's also well-known that Thunderbird doesn't scale. If you are already using an IMAP server for mail storage then try something that works better such as Alpine or Mutt or Claws-Mail. -- \m/ (--) \m/ _______________________________________________ Discuss mailing list [email protected] https://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/discuss
