[MlMt] How to *move* messages out of Inbox (or emulate such a behavior)?

Bill Cole mmlist-20120120 at billmail.scconsult.com
Wed Dec 28 18:13:15 EST 2016


On 28 Dec 2016, at 12:01, Randall Meadows wrote:

> BTW, I don't know about other mail hosts, but Dreamhost requires me to 
> trim messages out of my INBOX "for performance reasons"; if that's 
> really a thing, you may want to consider moving messages away from the 
> INBOX anyway.

[Putting on mail admin hat]

Yes, that can be a very real thing.  It won't be as bad on newer mail 
systems but ultimately whatever storage strategy an IMAP server uses, 
INBOX is going to get problematic if you just let it grow.


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