Gentoo Archives: gentoo-amd64

From: "Florian D." <flockmock@×××.at>
To: gentoo-amd64@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Replacement for Thunderbird.
Date: Sat, 17 Nov 2007 22:29:08
Message-Id: 473F6AC2.9090108@gmx.at
In Reply to: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Replacement for Thunderbird. by Paul Colquhoun
1 Paul Colquhoun wrote:
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4 > I've been using kmail for years, and it's always been happy to keep my
5 > email under ~/Mail and I have no trouble using mutt to access the kmail
6 > directory when I an logged in via ssh.
7 is this a mbox or maildir mailbox?
8
9 >
10 > As for scaling, I have some folders with over 3000 messages in them, and
11 > can't recall any problems accessing them. What size mailbox do you
12 > consider to be "large" and what scaling problems does it trigger?
13 >
14 >
15 I subscribed to LKML and wanted to keep the newest mails for one
16 month: ~10000 mails. filtering by age needed a lot more time as with
17 thunderbird, for example.
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Re: [gentoo-amd64] Replacement for Thunderbird. Paul Colquhoun <paulcol@×××××××××××××××××.au>