Am 2004-07-21 15:42:15, schrieb Domas Lukoshius:
>Hi,
>
>I'm using mutt 1.4.2.1i with mboxes. (os - freebsd, UFS filesystem)
>I've about 80mb mbox with about ~6000 emails. Mutt reads this
>mbox about 10 seconds at startup.
>
>I know, I can use Maildir header caching patch for mutt, but I dont
>want to move from mbox to Maildir.
>
>So, can anyone suggest my how to cache headers (is there some patch
>avalaible?) by using mbox ?
>Or is there any other way to make mutt read mbox faster ?
I thinking this is not possibel...
6000 Messages in a 80 MByte Mailbox mean, that each message is around
13 kByte in size.
While you use the mailbox format, mutt must scan the whole mailbox to
find the Header.
With Maildir it reads the Header up to the first empty line between
the Header and body, which is normaly less then 33% of the message.
But 80 MByte in a Mailbox is not funny...
I use maildir with around 5.000.000 Messages from Mailingliste (a
very big archive since 5 years) and some mailboxes containing 8-15.000
messges. Never had performance problems with maildir
No locks from procmail...
No problems while making incremental backups...
Think about Maildier...
>Thanks for answers,
>Domas.
Greetings
Michelle
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