Maybe, but those are unusually high maildir numbers IMO. I have approx 8Gb of email messages, but only have a handful of maildirs - this is primarily why I prefer mu4e and org as a powerful mail workflow.
I use to use the old model of sorting email into many different folders, but it was just too time consuming. My inbox was always large and I spent hours each week just sorting and refiling my messages. Now I just have a couple of maildirs for each account - inbox, archived, sent, draft and thats it. For messages I need to track, I create an org-todo with a mu4e link and if I need to find an old message, mu search works fine. Now my inbox has approx 20 messages and I spend no time sorting and refiling messages. Mutt is OK, but does not integrate well with emacs. I live in emacs, so I want my mail reader there as well. Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes: > * Tim Cross <theophil...@gmail.com> [2019-08-02 23:26]: >> I tried gnus some time ago and use to use it when I read >> newsgroups. While I find it to be an extremely powerful and capable >> package, I never got comfortable with using it for mail. I once used VM >> and then mew, but now mu4e, which I think is fantastic. Part of what I >> like about it is the nice workflow I have with org-mode. > > mu4e is good maybe for small usage, it does not scale up[1]. With > 47783 maildir folders it cannot cope. It is unusable. > > A concept to read maildirs from a database is not good one. Database > index is for searching. Maildirs shall be read directly based upon the > specification. > > Package `maildir' is much faster to read maildirs. > > A search with `mu' can symlink found emails into specific folder and > `maildir' package can quickly read such folder. That is about the `mu' > search. > > Nothing beats `mutt'[2] for reading emails. > > Jean > > Footnotes: > [1] https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/1440 > [2] https://www.mutt.org -- Tim Cross
