[TennisGeek]

I use B2 to access a Cyrus IMAP server that has a folder with about 100,000 messages.
The initial opening of folder took a long time, probably more than 5 minutes to open.
I can see the initial opening is reading about 200 messages headers/second.
Since it was going so slow, I left the machine, so I am not sure how long it actually took to retrieve all the listings.
My machine is dual core Intel Core2 Duo 2.4GHz, with a lot of memory running XP, with modern hard disks.

Before B2, I was using Thunderbird 3 and accessing to the folder took a lot less.

Now, once in a while when I click this "large" folder, B2 pegs a core for about 20 - 30 seconds and become not responsive.

Is there anything I can avoid the delay of opening the folder?
I probably don't need to access all 100,000 messages. I'm happy with, say the last 2,000 messages or so.
The folder contains a mailing list mails, and the traffic is high.

It would be awfully nice if B2 gets faster with the large folder.
Other than these slowness, accessing to individual message is pretty snappy, and B2 uses about the half of Thunderbird, which I like.

[Brummelchen]

#moved to developement

But just my thoughts - having 100.00 Emails in one folder is not really good for any mailer.
should be sorted somehow. then you should realise that each mail produces more than
100 bytes of traffic - so it produces heavy traffic to load and later to analyse and show content.
that thats time even on a quad core.

myself exprienced some slowness on becky and imap too but that were only <300 mails.
Thunderbird was faster dunno why. maybe a mixed use of both could help.

[TennisGeek]

Thanks for the reply, but your suggestion does not contribute to solving my issue.
There is nothing I can do about high volume mailing list that the imap server serves.

BTW, with same mail server, Pegasus mail reader reads the initial list faster by factor of 7.
Thunderbird is also several times faster compared to B2.

Regards,

Brummelchen, on Feb 5 2010, 12:44 PM, said:

#moved to developement

But just my thoughts - having 100.00 Emails in one folder is not really good for any mailer.
should be sorted somehow. then you should realise that each mail produces more than
100 bytes of traffic - so it produces heavy traffic to load and later to analyse and show content.
that thats time even on a quad core.

myself exprienced some slowness on becky and imap too but that were only <300 mails.
Thunderbird was faster dunno why. maybe a mixed use of both could help.