Re: MUA and client-side limits w.r.t. IMAP

2020-06-04 Thread Eric Wong
Eric Wong wrote: > * default, same as newsgroup name, messages "expire" > inbox.comp.version-control.git =>most recent 50K messages I think that's best left an empty parent folder, since having the most recent X messages means the client will have to refetch/resync that entire 50K a

MUA and client-side limits w.r.t. IMAP

2020-05-19 Thread Eric Wong
TL;DR: is 50K messages a reasonable IMAP folder size? So far, the IMAP daemon code shares quite a bit of data and logic with the NNTP code. NNTP article numbers are reusable as IMAP UIDs; and for small inboxes, newsgroups can be an IMAP folder. But that only works for small inboxes... One major