On Tue, 5 Apr 2005 18:02:59 -0400 , "Lex Spoon" <lex at cc.gatech.edu> wrote:

> The main thing is, you don't really want to have Celeste loading and
> saving an index of 10's of thousands of messages all the time.

The email client I use, Agent, keeps a separate index for each folder.

After a single folder gets to around 40,000 messages, things start to slow
down substantially.

Later,
Jon

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