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. -- ======================================================================= BOO! We changed Coke again! BLEAH! BLEAH! ======================================================================= Aaron Konstam telephone: (210) 656-0355 e-mail: akonstam@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
