[X4U] Mail.app capacities

[Simon Forster]

On 20 Apr 2007, at 06:44, Stroller wrote:

> On 19 Apr 2007, at 07:17, Zane H. Healy wrote:
>> ... Just how capable of handling mail is Mail.app?  I use Eudora  
>> Pro for my day to day email.  However I have a couple of  
>> administrative accounts that I use Mail.app to keep an eye on.   
>> With only 12,596 messages in the one box, and 2727 in the other it  
>> is practically paralyzed.  It simply doesn't seem to be able to  
>> handle the load.  It takes a minute or more to load the larger  
>> box, and it will pop up the spinning beach ball when I click on  
>> some of the messages.  This is on a G5 2x2 with 3.5GB RAM, so it's  
>> not some puny machine.
>
> I see I have 115,124 messages in one folder that I never read. I  
> double-clicked on it & was able to read today's messages within 10  
> seconds. This is on a DP 1.8 G5 running 10.4.9 with a 160gig h/d  
> with 14gig free.
>
> The messages are stored on a server running courier-imap. It's a  
> Pentium III 700mhz with a c 20gig system drive, but I don't think  
> that's relevant - I think, instead, that Mail.app caches the  
> messages locally.

Trash seems to be my biggest folder with with circa 8,170 emails -  
they come straight up and can be reviewed no problem.

FWIW, Mail seems to be managing 9 email accounts for me - 6 POP, 3  
IMAP. I have a client folder containing circa 45 separate folders  
into which I archive appropriate emails. A typical one of these  
folders contains 1256 emails.

Oh. My sent folder contains 9,471 messages - again, no issue viewing  
messages there.

IMHO, Mail manages fine handling large volumes of email. It's almost  
a secondary file system for me. Perhaps the problem lies elsewhere?

(Desktop: Dual 1.8 GHz G5, 2 GB RAM with home folder on laptop.  
Mobile: Aforementioned laptop. PowerBook G4 12". Maxed out RAM IIRC.  
Neither machine struggles with Mail).

Simon Forster
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