On 2015-04-21 12:47:14 -0500, David Wright wrote: > Quoting Vincent Lefevre (vinc...@vinc17.net): > > This mailbox is constantly open in a Mutt running in screen (in > > read-only mode). I often read it, and I modify it from time to time, > > either by adding new messages in the usual way, or by modifying some > > header of existing messages with some tool of mine (in which case, I > > restart Mutt to take the changes into account). > > I guess I find it hard (not knowing what all these emails are) to get > my head around needing an email-style random access to 145k emails in > one folder.
I can then do any filtering I like to search for an old e-mail instead of having to look at several folders individually. > > When I wrote my tool, I thought that such a cached mapping would be > > useless because the mailbox would have to be read by Mutt anyway. > > So, there's still something I don't understand: after dropping the > > caches, why is Mutt fast to read the mailbox (about 1 minute), but > > not my tool (about 30 minutes)? > > Because mutt caches, and its caches are persistent. > The default location (not in the man page, I think) is > ~/.mutt-cache/header-cache/ > for the headers, and its parent for the emails themselves. No, I don't use caches (the header cache is not enabled and the ~/.mutt-cache directory doesn't exist). > > > Have you considered running a local IMAP server to handle this (and > > > any other) maildir? > > > > There would be other problems. All the tools would have to talk > > with this server... and for instance, mairix doesn't support IMAP. > > Is this correct? > http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/gnus/Setting-up-mairix.html This seems to be something different (nnmairix), which is not in Debian. For mairix: mairix is a program for indexing and searching locally stored email messages. mairix supports Maildir, MH folders, and mbox formats. > But I don't understand why, if you're running mairix, you need to scan the > emails yourself. Hasn't mairix done this already? (As well as mutt.) Only once for indexing. This is persistent after reboots and not used by Mutt at all. -- Vincent Lefèvre <vinc...@vinc17.net> - Web: <https://www.vinc17.net/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <https://www.vinc17.net/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / AriC project (LIP, ENS-Lyon) -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20150422090326.gd20...@xvii.vinc17.org
