On Mon, 09 Jun 2008 12:31:54 -0600 linuxguy <linuxguy123@xxxxxxxxx> 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. This is the exact reason why I don't use T-Bird. I HATE the idea that all mail is stored into one file (mbox) sorta reminds me of the way Outlook doe things. I use Claws-Mail (stores in maildir) and keeping 75,000 mails per sub category is still blazing fast over mbox. -- Best regards, Chris () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments "There's no place like 127.0.0.1" -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
