How many messages do you keep in a folder?
I’ve been working on stress testing Kiwi. I setup an e-mail account and signed up to all of Apple’s mailing lists and a bunch of Linux mailing lists. I’ve collected about 10,000 messages so far. We are aiming at handling 20,000 messages in an IMAP folder (not per account, per folder) as efficiently and quickly as possible. Right now we can handle 10,000 without too much trouble. Displaying the messages is instantaneous and downloading them is blazing fast. We can download the headers for 10,000 messages at the rate of about 400 messages per second. The only part that is somewhat slow is downloading the list of messages from the server, once we have that list, Kiwi flies. We’ll be working on improving this in the near feature as well.
So my question to everyone is, what is the maximum number of messages that you have in a folder?