Re: using mutt on a large mailbox
I solved a problem of large mailbox partially for myself... As you've
mentioned, most annoying is the startup time. Do decrease it I never
close mutt really - it leaves inside 'screen':
and I have mutt command aliased to
alias mutt='screen -d -R MUTT /usr/bin/mutt'
btw I have 3 aliases
alias muttsent='screen -D -R SENT /usr/bin/mutt -f ~/Mail/Sent'
alias muttcaught='screen -D -R CAUGHT /usr/bin/mutt -f ~/mail/caughtspam'
now I just press ctrl-a-d instead of q when I need to leave mutt. and
then use mutt to instanteneousely 'start' my mutt :-)
Also I remove all the attachements present in the emails after I extract
them to harddrive
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Yarik
On Tue, Oct 05, 2004 at 06:10:19PM +0530, Payal Rathod wrote:
> Hi,
> We keep a copy of each mail of all users in a seperate mailbox in
> Maildir format. Now, the mail number has reached around 1,00,000 over
> the year. Now I want to delete a lot many messages. But it takes
> around 20 mins to open the mailbox. The machine is PIV 2.8 Ghz with
> 512 Mb RAM. Mutt is 1.4i which I have found faster than mutt 1.5.x
> Is there any way I can mutt faster? Whenever I make a regex search it
> takes a lot more time.
> With warm regards,
> -Payal
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