On Fri, Oct 02, 2020 at 10:36:44AM -0500, Derek Martin wrote: > > I haven't made this point yet since I regard it as almost irrelevant > given the above, but I would also argue it's not particularly useful > information, except in the context of disk space management--which has > nothing to do with Mutt. > I actually think it's probably the most relevant point! :-) It's why, when I started this thread, I said that it's not a deal breaker. I'm staying with maildir.
... by the way I just timed a 'du' on my main directory full of (maildir) directories:- chris$ time du -sm * 90 apexLodge 30 archive 190 boating 1 cl 1 entertainment 29 family 1 france 5 friends 6 greville 2 gwymca 15 hardware 87 holidays 35 houseHome 27 internet 52 isbd 3 jrml 9 maxMum 10 money 7 pcc 2 personal 11 reshapers 3 riding 1 segurossainfo 2 selling 236 shopping 6 software 12 telecoms 1 tractor 21 travel 2 ukraa 28 vehicles real 0m0.109s user 0m0.032s sys 0m0.076s (and, no, I didn't cheat, that was a 'cold start' du, I hadn't just run one before) Even *copying* the whole of my 1.5Gb mail hierarchy takes only 8 seconds. -- Chris Green