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We appreciate your frustration and thank you for your suggestion and your continued subscription.
The IMAP performance problems are complicated because they are connected to the structure of the "database accelerated" Runbox system, which in theory is very efficient -- to the extent that the various interfaces (web, IMAP, etc) are.
While we think we can improve performance significantly by tuning the various software components already in use, we're also considering alternatives -- among other things a relocation and major hardware upgrade; an option that has just recently come up.
We will discuss our alternatives in depth with our sysadmins next week and will inform you when we reach a conclusion and/or result.
By the way, IMAP performance seems to vary greatly with the client in use. For instance, Windows Mail (despite its other disadvantages) seems to download/update much faster than Thunderbird.
- Geir
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