Re: Very disturbing feature in icedove
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On 02/15/07 15:00, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 14, 2007 at 10:32:43PM -0500, Roberto C. Sanchez wrote:
>> Unless you are the sort of person who keeps 20,000 messages in a folder
>> or mailbox. I have seen such a thing.
>
> does that mean I have a problem?
You have a response-time aggravation if you want to delete an email.
You have a *problem* if the file gets corrupted near an early
emails. 19,950ish emails suddenly go poof.
Both issues can be mitigated by (a) filtering mails into topical
folders (family, debian-user, etc) and archiving by date to history
folders. I make a new debian-user folder every quarter, each folder
holding between 10 & 12 thousand emails, depending on how busy the
list was that quarter.
*Solving* the corrupted-mbox problem means moving to Maildir (or,
less popularly, mh) storage.
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