On 11 May 2021, at 19:49, Tracy Valleau wrote:

> 3 million messages !  Do you really need all of them actively online?

It is VERY convenient to be able to search over all of them :-)

Btw, I do have a virtual folder which is "all messages last six months" and 
default search folder is that one. So I have by the use of virtual folders 
hidden most email from daily work.

Very convenient.

> If not, and you are just archiving them, with only the need for infrequent 
> access, you might want to consider something like MailSteward.
>
> https://mailsteward.com/
>
> I've been using it for over a decade, and it has never lost an email. That 
> allows me to remove the email from my server, and keep significantly less 
> than 3 million "on hand."
>
> (For three million messages, you'd want the full mySQL version.)

Thanks!

  Patrik

> T
>
> On 11 May 2021, at 9:00, mailmate-requ...@lists.freron.com wrote:
>>
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>>
>> Message: 1
>> Date: Tue, 11 May 2021 09:10:32 +0200
>> From: Patrik Fältström <p...@frobbit.se>
>> To: MailMate Users <mailmate@lists.freron.com>
>> Subject: [MlMt] Memory usage
>> Message-ID: <d0a13c49-0620-4205-8430-9faee8bf8...@frobbit.se>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"
>>
>> I have been looking at the memory usage of mailmate throughout the years. I 
>> have concluded it "uses lots of memory".
>>
>> I have four imap accounts where specifically one have lots of messages. In 
>> total I have 2.988.939 messages, and MailMate eats 4.34GByte of memory about 
>> half an hour after starting.
>>
> _______________________________________________
> mailmate mailing list
> mailmate@lists.freron.com
> https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Attachment: signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature

_______________________________________________
mailmate mailing list
mailmate@lists.freron.com
https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate

Reply via email to