On Thu, Jul 08, 2021 at 11:39:42AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: [...]
> Any folder with more than a few hundred messages should probably be > converted to Maildir, unless it's used as an archive and rarely (if > ever) changed. (neo)mutt can deal with different formats per folder. Not my experience. As I said, my main mail folder is roughly 38k messages (corresponding to 1.1G) and mutt deals extremely well with that. Moving/deleting messages (which I do regularly) rarely takes more than a couple of seconds, even searching through all the mail bodies for a regexp is reasonable (tens of secs). And this on a machine which ain't a beast: a virtual slice with 1G RAM reporting one (virtual) proc at 6385.49 bogomips. Not talking against maildir (I'd like to avoid /that/ flame war ;) just saying that mutt copes excellently with big mboxes. Cheers - t
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