Multiple sub-folders

Question: can the use of multiple excess folders (more than 6) within
the Inbox affect the speed at which email is being received if filters
are being used?

CSB

 

I had at one time many subfolders of the Inbox (well, only five or six
direct subfolders), and it worked quite fast. But then I got yelled at
and told it would make my computer catch fire and that I would be
shunned from the Mozilla newsgroups if I had subfolders of the Inbox.
So I spent _hours_ (Thunderbird just loved spending huge amounts of
time doing almost nothing; if it had wanted to work quickly, it could
have finished in a few minutes, but NOOOO) moving everything to a
folder called "Main" on the same level as the Inbox folder. I don't
like it as much, but apparently it's a big no-no to have subfolders in
the Inbox. :\

 

Yes. it can and will.

The inbox is used to accept incoming mail. Having subfolders within it
can result in it being unable to accept new mail until the old mail has
been rewritten to reflect its new (filtered) location.

Do NOT have subfolders of the inbox
It will slow down opening of the inbox

 

I have a dozen subfolders under Inbox and two of them have subfolders.
I have many filters that scan incoming mail and put messages into the
appropriate folders based on the sender (e.g., a subfolder each for
Anne, Bob, Chuck, Don, Elaine ... etc.). I see no discernible
difference in speed of opening the Inbox.

Perhaps you're intending to say that you shouldn't STORE lots of
messages in the Inbox or its subfolders? I can see where that might be
a problem. I don't store many messages in those subfolders but the
total size of all the mail files under Inbox is about 640 Kb.

At any rate, it seems to me to be the most logical place to which new
mail messages should go: a subfolder under Inbox. Heck, they're
incoming messages.

 

Well, if you have problems, then the 'fix' is to NOT have subfolders of
the inbox <g>

In my mind its NOT logical <g>.
Your inbox on your desk, it has one place to place incoming mail. There
may be other places in the same stack, but they all require some sort of
filtering action.

Once a filter (of any sort) has acted on the incoming mail, then its not
incoming mail any longer, its been sorted (even minimally) so it
doesnt belong in the inbox. Thats how I see it anyway.