On Monday 10/24/11 16:45:22 CST, Michael Graham wrote:
> On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 05:06, du yang wrote:
> 
> > Yes, I can try to workaround the problem as Stardiviner suggests. But to 
> > make mutt more error-tolerant I think mutt still has something to be 
> > improved. 
> 
> I agree that mutt could do a better job of handling it, but all the MUAs I’ve 
> ever used extensively (Thunderbird, Lotus Notes, Outlook, Apple Mail) have 
> had a similar problem of choking up once mailboxes reach the high thousands.  
> I’m not going to delve into the philosophy of whether sorting that much mail 
> is a job for mutt or for another, specialised mail filing/sorting application.

Mutt has been brilliant enough. I might demand too much ;)

>       You should file a bug report/feature request, and in the meantime, 
> you’ll probably have to fall back on Stardiviner’s workaround until it gets 
> fixed.

I have made it work with Stardiviner's workaround. Also a bug report
has been registered.

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