On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:56 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >> On Monday 09 June 2008 19:31:54 linuxguy wrote: >> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:21 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: >> > > On Monday 09 June 2008 19:08:46 linuxguy wrote: >> > > > My email setup is 6 different gmail accounts, being sorted into about >> > > > 25 folders via rules. The largest folder has about 150,000 messages >> > > > in it. The smallest one has 5,000 messages in it. >> > > > >> > > > Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ? How does it compare ? How >> > > > hard is it to move over to it ? >> > > >> > > I don't recall what choices Tbird gives you, but whatever you do, don't >> > > put that number of messages into mbox folders. That isn't what you have >> > > now, by any chance, is it? If so, that's the cause of your problem. >> > >> > I've got a folder with 150,000 messages, yes. Its not usually the one >> > that gives the problem though. Almost always the one that gives the >> > problem is the one that is open when you first start the application. I >> > think there is a bug in retrieving the current message for viewing and >> > receiving a new email into the folder. >> > >> > What is one supposed to do with large email folders, besides manually >> > breaking them up ? >> >> If mail folders are maildir it doesn't matter how many messages you have in >> them. Each message is stored as an individual file. In an mbox folder each >> message is tagged on to the end of the existing file. When you get several >> thousand messages in an mbox folder you have one mighty big file. Consider >> what happens - >> >> You decide that a certain thread of messages is of no interest to you, so you >> delete the thread. First the whole folder - thousands of messages - have to >> be read in. Then the messages have to be identified and deleted out of the >> middle of the file. Finally the compacted file has to be written to disk. >> It works fine for small folders, but slows dramatically as the file grows. >> >> Anne > And what happens if you have 150,000 individual messages and you want to > delete a thread? You think that will be faster than with a single mbox > file? I doubt it. yes I think it would be. -- Fedora 7 : sipping some of that moonshine ( www.pembo13.com ) -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
