Invitation for technical discussion on next-generation Thunderbird

[Mihovil Stanić]

Not sure how many emails do others have in their mailboxes, but my
private email inbox contains 15000+ email, and work email has about
20000 emails per year, but I usually keep archives for every year
separate.

50.000 messages inbox would probably cover 99,99% users.


Mihovil




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Šalje: Gervase Markham  
Datum: 24.04.2017. 16:54 (GMT+01:00) 
To: Ben Bucksch , tb-planning at mozilla.org 
Naslov: Re: Invitation for technical discussion on next-generation
Thunderbird 



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Not sure how many emails do others have in their mailboxes, but my
private email inbox contains 15000+ email, and work email has about
20000 emails per year, but I usually keep archives for every year
separate.

50.000 messages inbox would probably cover 99,99% users.


Mihovil




-------- Izvorna poruka --------
Šalje: Gervase Markham  
Datum: 24.04.2017. 16:54 (GMT+01:00) 
To: Ben Bucksch , tb-planning at mozilla.org 
Naslov: Re: Invitation for technical discussion on next-generation
Thunderbird 


On 24/04/17 14:27, Ben Bucksch wrote:
> That's one way to look at it, but there are other criteria. I can
accept
> a small delay when opening a folder, but I cannot accept any delay
> whatsoever during scrolling. My tolerance for scrolling delays is
what I
> eyes won't notice anymore, somewhere in the area of 20ms.

If you are unwilling to tolerate any delays at all when scrolling
through a million message mailbox, where do you want to put the
asynchronicity?

I guess it might be possible to have all the metadata in memory to
populate the tree, but not the message bodies? So whenever you load a
message, that's when the async DB hit happens?

> I think 1 million emails in a folder are an edge case. We should not
> redesign everything for edge cases, as that will have costs in
design
> and implementation time, and might cause other disadvantages.

What size of folder do you think we should have performance targets
for?

Gerv
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