On 25-Jan-2008, at 07:22, chasd wrote:
A mailbox with a large number of messages takes a lot of memory to display and handle. Thunderbird can simply request more memory from your computer. RoundCube depends on the memory on the server, and how much of that the server admin has allowed PHP and the web server to get. Most admins keep a tight reign on the PHP memory allocation because of security issues and the possibility of a runaway process causing a type of Denial Of Service to other users. If you crash your computer because T-Bird demands too much memory, it only impacts you. If your requests on the server through RoundCube cause the server to crash, that impacts many more users.
And yet, Squirrelmail seems to work fine with mailboxes that have over
1000 emails. Not well, but it works.