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It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.

• yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.
  • zimpenfish 4y ago
    Oh, it's a nonsense, definitely, but it only gets cleaned out every 6 months or thereabouts and I've not yet translated the rules in my cleaning script to Sieve rules to do it automatically.
  • seszett 4y ago
    What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades? Because I haven't, and having everything in one folder works just fine with the clients I use.
    • yonrg 4y ago
      I use two folders, inbox (currently active mails, also sent ones) and trash, which is the ever growing pile of mails. Most importantly is the use of a mail indexer (notmuch currently) for searching and getting virtual mailbox viewes.
    • Jorengarenar 4y ago
      I delete e-mails the moment I don't need them anymore. Right now, on my main mail, I have ~400 mails in Trash, but only 10 in Inbox and Archive + another dozen in Sent.
      • seszett 4y ago
        I sometimes wish to find emails that I couldn't have known I would need again. Right now, I've been looking for the email address of the landlord of the house I lived in until 2009. I'm happy that I didn't remove his email saying that his son would come on Friday to fix the door handle.