On Thu, Sep 18, 2014 at 04:19:12PM -0400, Mark Filipak wrote: > How is mutt with multi-mega-byte mboxes? Have you found that having tens > of thousands of messages in a single box is dangerous? > > Thank You.
I've had up to 40k messages in a mbox file, collecting debian-devel. The only effect I noticed regarding mutt is that loading the box upon access took its due time (my disk is quite slow). But the file itself didn't get corrupted by the fault of mutt in any way. That being said, since you're talking about 'multi-megabyte mboxes': my local 'sent' mbox is well over 1 gigabyte due to attachments -- this too doesn't seem to be a problem at all. Best regards, Jens.
