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While it's not built in, this is totally solvable in a performant way on the web. Fastmail's web UI lazy loads in mailbox lists of messages (which for some users can be 1,000,000+ items long). The scrollbar is correct and you can jump to an arbitrary point. You can select all. We've had this for, I dunno, 7+ years now?

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Fastmail is indeed a radical outlier on this front, by far the best of the bunch. Its lazy tables are still broken (Find and Print for example) but they get scrolling right, and that is significant.

It's not at all representative of the experience of using Gmail, Ymail, Hotmail. The web requires heroics to get quality.

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