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Re: mutt - slow mbox'es



Hi!

On Wed, Jul 21, 2004 at 04:05:03PM +0200, Vincent Lefevre wrote:
> On 2004-07-21 16:00:31 +0200, Andre Bonhote wrote:
> > Hm ... interesting point. I have 56 mboxes configured in mutt, some of
> > them quite big (>2000 Mails). I started to split them off with `date`,
> > creating monthly mail files to solve the problem of mutt starting up
> > slowly.
> 
> I have 25400 mails in my archive mailbox. :) In fact, I did the
> opposite of what you did: joining different archive mailboxes.
> The goal is to make searching easier.

 Get grepmail.
 
> > Delivery is done via fetchmail/procmail. What's the topology of a
> > maildir? Can I tell fetchmail to deliver to different maildirs?
> 
> If you use procmail, procmail can do this.

 Ok. I'll read the man. But this doesn't explain how it's done. Will it
 create several directories under ~/Mail/ ? like
 ~/Mail/office/{cur|new|...}?

> > Can I convert my mboxes to maildir?
> 
> Yes, with Mutt.

 Oh. How that?

 Unfortunately, the maildir(5) manpage is missing on my system (OS X
 10.3) ...
 

 Cheers

 A.


 PS: You're lightning quick!

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