Re: ccing

[Brian Nelson <pyro@debian.org>]

"s. keeling" <keeling@spots.ab.ca> writes:

> Incoming from Brian Nelson:
>> 
>> I don't know about that.  I've found that mutt is one of the painfully
>> slowest MUAs around (at least at loading large Maildirs or IMAP folders)
>> even on very fast computers...
>
> That's pretty simple to deal with.  Archive old mail, and just keep a
> year's worth in your mail dir.

I have mail "expire", i.e. get deleted, after 2 weeks for every mailing
list I read.  However, for high traffic ones (note debian-user is
relatively low-traffic for me), that amounts to a steady 12,000 or so
mails.  Mutt takes at least 10 seconds to load such a Maildir folder.
And if it's over IMAP, even locally, forget about it.  It'll take at
least a minute.

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