-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/15/07 15:00, Andrew Sackville-West wrote: > On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote: >> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder >> or mailbox. I have seen such a thing. > > does that mean I have a problem?
You have a response-time aggravation if you want to delete an email. You have a *problem* if the file gets corrupted near an early emails. 19,950ish emails suddenly go poof. Both issues can be mitigated by (a) filtering mails into topical folders (family, debian-user, etc) and archiving by date to history folders. I make a new debian-user folder every quarter, each folder holding between 10 & 12 thousand emails, depending on how busy the list was that quarter. *Solving* the corrupted-mbox problem means moving to Maildir (or, less popularly, mh) storage. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFF1NPWS9HxQb37XmcRAgjCAJ9fpWmf3z3MuRLO65iYD2faL/KvDACeM1jB b/GSNXrHYWh+0uNOjwMkYrM= =t0yF -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
