Package: kmail I was manually migrating some of my old mail from Mozilla to Kmail, using a single ~450MB mbox file as input to Kmail. I have Kmail configured to use ~/Mail as the directory with mbox files as the default format.
Kmail loaded the new mbox fine: ~33,000 new messages. I sorted the messages by date, selected the messages I wanted to trash, and hit the "delete" key. Kmail took about 5 minutes at pegged CPU to move 20,000 messages (110MB) to Trash. Then I right-clicked Trash and selected "Empty Trash". Kmail took an additional 5 minutes at pegged CPU to empty the Trash folder. It's OK for the first step (moving to Trash) to take a couple minutes -- the mbox must be rewritten to disk sometime. However, the second step (emptying Trash) should be essentially instantaneous. Emptying an entire folder should be equivalent to 'rm filename'. I moved to Kmail largely due to its speed improvements over Mozilla. In this case it IS still a lot faster -- Mozilla took about 40 minutes to delete only 10,000 messages -- but it is still embarrassing to blow 10 minutes of 2.4GHz+ CPU to manipulate only 300MB. $ dpkg --status kmail: Package: kmail Status: install ok installed Priority: optional Section: mail Installed-Size: 6704 Maintainer: Debian Qt/KDE Maintainers <debian-qt-kde@lists.debian.org> Architecture: i386 Source: kdepim Version: 4:3.5.5.dfsg.1-1 Replaces: kdepim-dev (<< 4:3.4.0), kdebase-data (<< 4:3.4.0) Provides: imap-client, mail-reader <remainder snipped> -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
