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On Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:44 -0400 |
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Michael Pobega <pobega@×××××.com> wrote: |
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> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:02:07PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: |
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> Yeah, my debian-user folder is at 54,000 e-mails now. It's pretty |
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> crazy, it takes me about four minutes to access it. I don't know why |
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> Mutt needs to continually cache the data, I thought the idea of |
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> caches was to prevent things like this from happening? |
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That is crazy indeed. I had the same "problem" here and thought a |
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bit about it, and so, just to hopefully clear this up for others: |
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Why should one store years old mailing lists mail _on the server_ |
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for ever? |
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Why is IMAP useful, because you can access your mails from |
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anywhere and from multiple clients. But that counts only for those |
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mails which have a chance to be of interest at different places |
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(complete personal email, probably). |
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This is certainly not the case for year old mailinglist mails (which |
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are, in the case of debian-user at least, also available from public |
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archives). |
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Why store these maybe hundred of megabytes of mail on the server, |
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there is just no reason. And it should not surprise that clients (and i |
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guess servers alike) need a huge amount of time to scan through huge |
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directories, even if only comparing the local cache. |
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If you don't trust the public mailing list archives, do it like I did |
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for now. Create a local mailbox (you have to find some certain machine |
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for this of course, i suggest your desktop at home). |
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I called it "archived mail". Then create e.g. a folder debian-user and |
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just move all mails from the IMAP server to that local folder. |
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Afterwards you can still access your archived mails from that list, |
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just not from everywhere (well actually you can by using the public |
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archives), but you have to ask yourself again: Why should i need that? |
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Now I have the huge folders lying on my hard-disk, i can search |
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_quickly_ through tenthousands of mails, and the access time for |
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opening the remote folders is greatly reduced. If I feel like cleaning |
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up again, maybe after 1-2k mails, i just move them over again. Reducing |
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unneccessary traffic, saving precious resources, and able to search the |
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archive much quicker. |
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This is just my opinon, maybe someone who had _all_ his mails on IMAP |
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till now might rethink this. |
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Cheers, |
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Patric |
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