Re: using mutt on a large mailbox
Dear Payal Rathod,
Once you wrote about "using mutt on a large mailbox":
> 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.
Why don't you split messages in several mailboxes? Try using a structure
like "mailspool/user/year/month/day". It is trivial to setup (either
use procmail or configure your MTA to deliver to the right mailbox). It
will speedup all mutt operations more than anything else that you will
try to do. ;)
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Leonid Mamchenkov.
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