Converting Mail from Evolution for Mutt

[Stephen R Laniel]

On Fri, Sep 09, 2005 at 10:07:45PM +0100, Magnus Therning wrote:
> >Also -- Should I use mbox or maildir -- of which I hear good things?
> >Any opinions?
> I use maildir. mbox can get slow if you keep lots of mail in a single
> box. I'm not sure how many "many" is, it could be in the thousands :-)

I've heard good things about maildir, but I use mbox myself.
I've got a decently powerful laptop, and some of my
mailboxes contain tens of thousands of messages; the
ubu-users mailbox, for instance, contains just under 16,000
messages. It takes quite a while to load in mutt -- maybe 15
seconds or so (though I've not timed it). Subsequent loads
don't take long. Saving a message to ubu-users takes no
time; I gather that appending a message to an mbox file is
a constant-time operation.

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Stephen R. Laniel
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