On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:58:25PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > On 15-02-2021 16:38:43, Chris Green wrote: > > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:26:09PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote: > > > On 15-02-2021 16:21:11, Chris Green wrote: > > > > I currently have the following two lines in my crontab to delete old > > > > mails in my junk catching directories > > > > > > I mean, how many tens of GB of mail do you get each year so that > > > it is necessary to delete stuff? > > > > > Zillions of small files can make searching and stuff slow too. > > May I suggest something like notmuch [0] for your mail setup? > > My maildir is about 75k messages right now and searching is in the range of > less than a second. > Maybe you just need the right tool? ;-) > I use mairix and it works fast and well.
Does no one else ever delete mail messges? :-) -- Chris Green
