Email performance problems - how to empty the mailbox

You can also delete your account and set it up again. I did this with my account when I updated many folders on server side and wanted to have a clean approach. It helped and now the mail app is much faster. Of course you should maybe really clean up your account, do you really need 20k mails on the phone?

Re "do you really need 20k mails on the phone", I wouldn't ask for help "pruning" it if I did need 20k of emails on the telephone ;-)

Yeah, if your account is configured with IMAP, deleting and creating it again will only download the last entries (I remember it was 20 at some point)

But you can indeed have a thought to the planet and delete some of your useless emails from the server also :) http://oran.ge/ecdays

Well I would prefer changing the server side, should be much more comfortable than on the phone. With IMAP there are also some problems with the folders, so can happen that the phone spoils your actual folder structure.

I tried to delete the account. The emails are no longer accessible in the email app, but there are still way too many files under ~nemo/.qmf/mail. Hm.