Just a side comment, me thinks, that user needs to sort/organize.  How 
can you manage a 60k+ inbox? <smile>.

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On 1/24/2014 3:14 PM, Chris Ferebee wrote:
> What are the practical limits on the number of messages per folder? I'm seeing problems when a user has in excess of 60,000 messages in his inbox, Gmail-style. Access from Mac OS X Mail seems to be OK, but refreshing the INBOX in iOS Mail takes very long (> 15 seconds before the first feedback), and it often stalls completely.
>
> I'm running SurgeMail 6.5a-1 on 64-bit SmartOS (Solaris x64) with ample resources. The filesystem is ZFS, which supposedly is pretty much constant-time WRT directory size, etc. Does the architecture of SurgeMail impose limits?
>
> Best,
> Chris