Huge Inbox

[Rob Siemborski]

On Wed, 18 Dec 2002, Jay Levitt wrote:

> Are you using skiplist for your mboxlist?  I have over 7000 messages in my
> inbox and it's zippy as can be...

This of course depends on what is being slow.  If LIST commands are taking
a long time, using the skiplist backend (as opposed to Berkeley DB) should
be a big improvement.

If, on the other hand, FETCH or SEARCH is being slow, this won't help much
at all (since they don't hit the mailbox list).

-Rob

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