On Mon 15 Jan 2024 at 21:05:10 (+0100), to...@tuxteam.de wrote: > On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 01:56:25PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > > On Sun 14 Jan 2024 at 18:17:58 (-0500), gene heskett wrote: > > > On 1/14/24 12:53, mick.crane wrote: > > > > > > Isn't mbox (seen elsewhere) like one file? > > > > Without knowing what I'm doing I reckoned maildir would be safer. > > > > > > > > > > I've always found it to be safer as long as the max # of entries is > > > not exceeded. > > > > What would that maximum be? Here mutt appears to competently handle > > a 6GB mbox with 372,210 entries, albeit slowly. > > Woah. 1.5G/47k entries here. You win :)
I cheated. I ran a python script that I have for generating an mbox from mutt's message cache. (My INBOX has ~35½k items, but there are a fair number of stale items in the cache, leading to 37221 total. I then catted 10 copies of the mbox into a mega-one (rather, giga-) in /tmp, opened it in mutt (that's slow), sorted it variously (that's quick), read some, deleted some, and sync'ed it (slow again, as it makes a copy). All probably not helped by having level 5 debugging going into a file. So my actual mbox maxima are ½GB size and ~3000 messages. The 0.6GB INBOX obviously doesn't count as an mbox. You win after all :) Cheers, David.
