Re: Thunderbird

[Keith Carpenter <entropypool@xxxxxxxxx>]

Joe Pluta wrote:
> The performance depends a lot on your IMAP server, Mike.
>
> I use a local server and I can tell you the performance blows Outlook 
> away (not to mention there is no 2GB limit).  Now, I use /Maildir format 
> instead of mailbox, so your mileage may vary.  But in my setup, I can do 
> a complex search (From PLUTA with Body containing WDSC) finding 65 
> matches on over 20,000 messages in about 12 seconds.
>
> The first time I try something like this, the server has to build an 
> index, and I assume you have to update the index for new entries; I try 
> to archive older messages so that new messages don't affect the bigger 
> indices.  But in any case, trying to do something like that in Outlook 
> would be measured in minutes, if I was lucky.


How's the performance when you access your mail remotely ?

Keith