On Mon, Jan 15, 2024 at 10:04:13PM -0600, David Wright wrote: > 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.
Since there weren't any rules beforehand, there's no cheat... > I ran a python script [...] > 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 :) :-) I admit that this is my rough maximum too: it is this time of the year where I split off one year to the archives. Cheers -- t
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