On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jorge Fábregas wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I subscribed to this list on May,2004. So far, I haven't delete any message at > all because once in a while I perform a search against it whenever I need to > find out about something (rather than going to the redhat archive). > > I use Kmail on a Tualatin 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB and a 7200 RPM IDE disk. I now have > 24,219 messages on the folder. I'm NOW starting to feel it. Although I was > used to the 6-8 seconds it took Kmail to load...now when I click on the > Fedora-list folder, it takes about 1.5 seconds before it shows me a message > at all. > > What do you recommend me? > > Should I: > > 1> Buy a 10K RPM SCSI hard-disk? (would I notice a big improvement?) > 2> Switch to maildir format? > 3> Delete old msg's and get the habit of using redhat archive? > > Comments are welcome! Can't you just move older mail (say every 2 months) into a different mbox-file/folder? (and whenever searching - do it across them all) BTW: archives at gmane.org have pretty decent search feature. Satish
