Is there any limit on the number of e-mails in a given folder with Courier IMAP?

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Published on 2010-03-16T11:05:32Z Indexed on 2010/03/16 11:16 UTC
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I'm not running into a problem or anything, I was just curious about this when I saw I have 2 folders with around 20,000 items in each. Everything works fine (using Thunderbird), but I couldn't find anything with Google about this. Anyone ever heard of a limit on this with Courier IMAP?

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