Re: using mutt on a large mailbox
Hi,
Nice idea. Got to see if it really works in action. Except one
problem, we shut down the server every weekend for a whole day.
-Payal
p.s. btw, we too strip the attachments from the mails.
On Tue, 5 Oct 2004 09:06:52 -0400, Yaroslav Halchenko
<mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 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
>
> --
> 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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