diff --git a/CHANGELOG b/CHANGELOG
index e485ff6eb..ee80c5533 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG
+++ b/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 CHANGELOG Roundcube Webmail
 ===========================
 
+- Fix performance of listing writeable folders (#1489451)
+
 RELEASE 1.0-beta
 ----------------
 - Fix handling of invalid closing tags in HTML messages (#1489446)
diff --git a/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php b/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php
index fdda1d4b2..dc5305808 100644
--- a/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php
+++ b/program/lib/Roundcube/rcube_imap.php
@@ -2843,12 +2843,21 @@ class rcube_imap extends rcube_storage
 
     /**
      * Filter the given list of folders according to access rights
+     *
+     * For performance reasons we assume user has full rights
+     * on all personal folders.
      */
     protected function filter_rights($a_folders, $rights)
     {
         $regex = '/('.$rights.')/';
+
         foreach ($a_folders as $idx => $folder) {
+            if ($this->folder_namespace($folder) == 'personal') {
+                continue;
+            }
+
             $myrights = join('', (array)$this->my_rights($folder));
+
             if ($myrights !== null && !preg_match($regex, $myrights)) {
                 unset($a_folders[$idx]);
             }