On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:40:46PM -0700, Mark Schoonover wrote:
On 10/29/07, Christian Seberino <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
What do people do to manage huge and growing Sent and Saved folders
in their email system of choice?
Squirrelmail slows to a crawl on these directories because they
are huge.
I delete things.
There have been so many times I have searched through old email and found
something that I stopped deleting mail that wasn't otherwise obvious spam.
The few GB of space isn't really that significant any more.
How far back is your email going? I use mutt for email, and have
configured it to automatically move read and saved messages into a folder
based on the current year. This way, a single folder only keeps mail for
at most a single year. It might start to get a little sluggish near the
end of the year.
Another question is what are you using for a backend to hold the email?
Different imap servers have very different performance characteristics.
What filesystem is the mail server using? I'm running cyrus-imapd on an
ext3 filesystem. It doesn't seem to have any problem with tens of
thousands of messages.
You might also try connecting with a different imap client to see if the
slowness is caused by squirrelmail or by the imap server.
David
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