Re: Thunderbird -- PCTECH

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Scott Klement wrote:

I do sometimes have trouble with my IMAP server's performance, but part of that is it's running on a Unix system and using the traditional Unix "mbox" format for e-mail. I've converted some folders to mbx, and they seem a little better. I've played a little bit with MIX format, but I'm waiting for the MIX related tools to mature a bit more. (The other option is Maildir, which would work better than mbox as well, but not as well as MIX, so I'm waiting for MIX). But, anyway, since GMail is running the mail server, you don't have to worry about the mailbox format in your scenario.

You must be using the UW IMAP server. MIX sounds like an improvement
over the single file approach. Apparently Dovecot supports a similar
format called dbox.
http://wiki.dovecot.org/MailboxFormat

My web host offers Courier IMAP (maildir) for email access. I haven't left a lot of mail on their server to be able to get a good gauge on large folder performance, but it usually seems faster than GMail's IMAP server. Not a very objective comparison, but given that GMail is a free
service, I'm not complaining.

Keith

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