Keep 1000's of mails searchable without slowing down?

[qmtfkctc]

Hi there

I want to be able to access 1000's of my old emails through the search function, but without slowing everything down.

Do I do this through the number of emails shown in the inbox, or is there another way?

[Kostya Vasilyev]

Hard question.

Local (on-device) search, when you run it from the main window, is likely to be fairly slow if you did this.

Server side search, when you run it from a specific folder (IMAP folder) may not be faster overall, but works incrementally.

So, sorry, there are some natural performance limits here.