cyrus and 500k to >1M mails per inbox

[Daniel O'Connor]

On Fri, 12 Feb 2010, Derek Yarnell wrote:
> Just as an aside we archive our root mail (lots of crap) into a cyrus
> mailbox and found that past 250k messages it just began to suck at
> the client layer.
>
> What we did was have sieve filter that would be re-generated on a
> monthly basis (using sievec) in the account that would filter into a
> folder for that month.  The only thing was that you would have to
> pre-populate the folders (or maybe I am a sieve noob and not aware of
> a way that sieve can create the folder if it doesn't exist).
>
> Anyway this is a pretty good way to deal with large archival
> mailboxes.

I wrote a script which creates a new folder each month and moves emails 
into it.

This does suck for offline users though (lucky that is not an issue for 
me).

I can send it to you if you like, it uses Python's base imaplib.

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