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On Sun, 18 Nov 2007, Florian D. wrote: |
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> Paul Colquhoun wrote: |
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> > I've been using kmail for years, and it's always been happy to keep |
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> > my email under ~/Mail and I have no trouble using mutt to access the |
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> > kmail directory when I an logged in via ssh. |
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> is this a mbox or maildir mailbox? |
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All in maildir format. |
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> > As for scaling, I have some folders with over 3000 messages in them, |
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> > and can't recall any problems accessing them. What size mailbox do |
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> > you consider to be "large" and what scaling problems does it |
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> > trigger? |
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> I subscribed to LKML and wanted to keep the newest mails for one |
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> month: ~10000 mails. filtering by age needed a lot more time as with |
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> thunderbird, for example. |
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OK, that's a lot more than I have in any one folder, and I don't use |
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aging to remove old messages (I just do it by hand occasionally). |
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Reverend Paul Colquhoun, ULC. http://andor.dropbear.id.au/~paulcol |
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Asking for technical help in newsgroups? Read this first: |
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http://catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html#intro |
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