Christian Hammers wrote: > > What would you suggest to store very big mailfolders i.e. all my mail > from one month. maildir and mbox seems to be equal slow in both, > grepping, and loading (indexing) in mutt. Cool would probably be > maildir (easy use with standard unix tools) with a kind of index file > that automatically recognise additions and removals of maildir files. > > Anybody implemented such an idea or does anybody have a better idea?
you don't mention what type of filesystem you're on. certain filesystems are known to be pretty slow with Maildir style mailboxes (ie ext2fs) once they start to get really big. in theory maildir should be faster. you might also try sorting by date/date instead of threads/date when opening large folders. the maildir threading algorithm has been improved since the version of mutt you appear to be using, so if possible, you should upgrade to the newest dev release. check the archives for a very similar discussion a month or so back. w -- GPG Public Key: http://infinitejazz.net/will/pgp/
