Re: Large mailbox not recognized
* Thomas Glanzmann <sithglan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> [16-11-2004 19:28]:
> if I find the time, I make a patch ready. It shouldn't be to hard. The
> problem is that mutt doesn't use open64, lseek64 or the corresponding
> function on other architectures. Maybe it is as easy as to enable 64bit
> offsets (I saw that once for IMAP?!).
Thanks for the offer. I think it would be best to archive the mail
and not bother with deviating from the standard distribution. As a
Debian user I like apt-get and friends.
> Just out of curiosity: Who long took it to open the 2Gbyte mbox before
> it reached the magic border?
Maybe a few minutes. The program was responding quickly when
started. Writing messages took a couple of minutes as well.
By the way it was not my inbox. The user is using fetchmail to get
mails from a few busy accounts. He likes to have everything together
for fast searching, limiting and sorting.
What is the best way to split the mbox into a few smaller files so
we can remove some large messages? I am sure that 1% of the messages
take up 98% of the size.
Would maildir be better suited for this kind of use?
Thanks,
Bob