Hi, Bastian. On Mon, Feb 17, 2014 at 08:42:16PM +0100, bastian-muttu...@t6l.de wrote: > On 17Feb14 18:50 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote: > > My inbox has now reached the grand total of 100,000 messages (_exactly_ > > 100,000, coincidentally enough). This is partly a result of me being > > subscribed to too many mailing lists, and partly of me not getting > > around to clearing things out.
> mbox or maildir? mbox. I've never used maildir, but it strikes me that it would be slower, not counting the initial 12s loading time. > > (Yes, I know I could do clever things to split incoming messages amongst > > several mailboxes, but I don't _want_ to.) > I also have just two mailboxes. > inbox and trash! That's enough. > For sorting/splitting there is mairix (or plain mutt searching) :) "Plain", indeed! I find mutt searching very sophisticated. > I started to use trash as my 2nd level mailbox, because startup of mutt took > too > long. > Because deleting mails rewrote my entire mbox, I switched over to maildir, so > no rewriting of the > mbox file is necessary. > Cheers, > Bastian -- Alan Mackenzie (Nuremberg, Germany).
