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Re: size of mail dirs



* On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 Javier Rojas (jerojasro@xxxxxxxxx) muttered:
> I'm using maildir to store my mail. However, some folders have gotten
> quite large (1000+ msgs), and mutt takes a lot of time opening them.

>   1. Is it possible to accelerate mutt's access to large mailboxes,

Use header_cache

>   2. How large do you let your maildir mailboxes grow before creating 
>      archives of it? 

1-3k messages. It really depends on the folder though. I only archive
list/work folders.

HTH,

Michael
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