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It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.

Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.

What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades?

Because I haven't, and having everything in one folder works just fine with the clients I use.

I use two folders, inbox (currently active mails, also sent ones) and trash, which is the ever growing pile of mails.

Most importantly is the use of a mail indexer (notmuch currently) for searching and getting virtual mailbox viewes.

I delete e-mails the moment I don't need them anymore.

Right now, on my main mail, I have ~400 mails in Trash, but only 10 in Inbox and Archive + another dozen in Sent.

I sometimes wish to find emails that I couldn't have known I would need again.

Right now, I've been looking for the email address of the landlord of the house I lived in until 2009. I'm happy that I didn't remove his email saying that his son would come on Friday to fix the door handle.

Oh, it's a nonsense, definitely, but it only gets cleaned out every 6 months or thereabouts and I've not yet translated the rules in my cleaning script to Sieve rules to do it automatically.

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