On May 15, 2012, at 4:43 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon May 14 23:58:41 EDT 2012, mve...@gmail.com wrote: >> >> On May 14, 2012, at 11:51 PM, John Floren wrote: >>> >>> If you have a large number of messages, Erik's "nupas" is useful; IIRC >>> it will cache messages locally so you don't have to download a ton of >>> headers each time you start upas. >>> >>> However I've found that with both old upas and nupas, there are some >>> messages that make them choke. Sadly I can't remember what triggered >>> it. >>> >>> john >>> >> >> My 16,000 message inbox usually make nupas and upas shit the bed. I've never >> had specific messages kill it though. > > the nupas core should be ok with 16k messages > > minooka; mail -f bigmbox > 45465 messages, 44899 unread > : q > > on the other hand, i can easily believe the imap mailbox type > can't handle this. i haven't used imap mailboxes much, and > when i did, they were very small. if you have specific ideas, > and or observed problems, i'd be glad to incorporate them. > > - erik >
It's imap. My other mail clients don't have much issue with it (alpine will choke on a slow connection), but my work machine (running 9front) is having definite issues. I'll totally look into this more for you, Erik. PS. You have >44000 unread messages?!?!?!?!? -- Veety
