-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 04/09/13 02:37, James Griffin wrote: > ................Mon 8.Apr'13 at 8:55:16 -0600 Nicolas > Bock................ >> Hi all, >> >> that makes a lot of sense. I just double checked with TB and yes, >> it is basically the same speed. Synchronizing the headers takes >> forever :) >> >> I will have to start labelling emails much more aggressively, >> thanks for the tip! >> >> nick >> >> >> On Sat, Apr 06, 2013 at 11:31:53AM +0200, Jonny Oschätzky wrote: >>> Hi Nick, >>> >>>> The local read test really seems to indicate that it's not >>>> the database backend that is controlling performance when >>>> switching folders here. It is presumable network >>>> communication with Google's imap servers. And that presumably >>>> means that I can't do much about it, or can I? >>> >>> I can confirm this. >>> >>> If you have a big mailbox (my "All Mail" contains ~150,000 >>> messages), then the Google IMAP server is very slow. I've >>> checked this with Thunderbird and the result is mostly the >>> same. TB opens the box very fast and then it takes a long time >>> to update the header cache. >>> >>> The IMAP protocol itself causes this, because it needs to >>> synchronize the folder. The bigger a folder is the longer this >>> process takes. >>> >>> I solved this problem for me with offlineimap and archivemail. >>> I don't need the All Mail folder since I use labels for all my >>> stuff and mailing lists. So it results in different Maildirs on >>> my PC which are synchronized by offlineimap in the background. >>> Older mail is archived by archivemail in gzipped mboxes. That >>> works great. :) >>> >>> Jonny >>> > > Purely just out of curiosity, why would you need to keep such a > high number of email? Is this something quite common (at risk of > sounding a bit stupid)? I just can't imagine ever keeping that much > email in my account. >
That's a good question. The thing is that since Google's webinterface makes searching for messages and opening folders so painless it never occurred to me that that's a large number. Only after I started becoming a little bit more paranoid somewhat recently and attempted to back up my emails and set up gpg, did I start to understand that there are limitations with this amount of data. So I take it that you simply delete old emails? Or do you have some archiving protocol? nick -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://www.enigmail.net/ iEYEARECAAYFAlFkEJEACgkQf15tZKyRylI01ACfVfTsMEblM1Cb12sELwLE21oc zTgAnjr0PKOQ2zy5hjqPU7xB7Y2A+I8k =2SEw -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
