[MlMt] giving up - MailMate crash - won't synchronize

Joe Abley jabley at hopcount.ca
Wed May 13 16:41:01 EDT 2015



On 13 May 2015, at 16:07, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote:

> On 13 May 2015, at 18:12, Joe Abley wrote:
>
>> I use MailMate with gmail and IMAP mailboxes, five accounts total, with somewhere in the region of 5 million messages between them and something like 25,000 in the combined inbox.
>
> I'm pretty sure MailMate cannot handle 5 million messages. I suspect most of them are in “[Gmail]/All Mail” mailboxes which are not synchronized by MailMate by default (as recently [discussed](https://www.mail-archive.com/mailmate@lists.freron.com/msg04231.html) on the mailing list).
>
> The number of messages in MailMate is the count of “All Messages”+“Deleted Messages”+“Junk”.

Ah yes, I don't actually have five million messages on line. I've been saying that for long enough that apparently I started to believe it. It's actually under a million (although not by much). Apparently I forgot about the Great Mailing List IMAP Cull of 2010.


Joe
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