[Evolution-users] IMAP vs POP3

[Michael S.]

On Tue, 2025-10-07 at 23:29 +0100, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Tue, 2025-10-07 at 17:29 -0400, Michael S. via evolution-users
> wrote:
> > More recently, I have overbserved long delays each time I load Evo, and
> > the
> > IMAP folders syncing and refreshing each time. I use 10 folders and my
> > combined IMAP accounts are around 20k messages
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> 
> Before trying to make something fast, it's advisable to measure what is
> actually slowing it down. 
> How to measure it?
> Is there any reason to think that using POP
> is going to be any faster than IMAP or could the problem simply be with
> your mail provider?
It is a Mailcow server. But the same situation is with Google mail. I don't
think POP will be faster, but it will be storing the mail locally, so no
server syncing.
> 
> Also, do you mean to access the same mailstore using both POP and IMAP?
> If the POP access only keeps messages for XX days, what happens to the
> IMAP access? What happens to the local POP store when you "clean up"
> the IMAP version? Have you tried this?
> 
> The proposal sounds complicated to me, with a lot of manual management
> that could easily go wrong. I would advise trying it on a test account
> first (though a small test account won't tell you anything useful about
> the performance impact on the real account)
thank you, that's good advice. A small test account won't prove anything
unless it's under load of 20k messages.
> 
> poc

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Michael S.
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