20K(+) messages on this Mailing List folder

[Satish Balay]

On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Jorge Fábregas wrote:

> Hello everyone,
> 
> I subscribed to this list on May,2004. So far, I haven't delete any message at 
> all because once in a while I perform a search against it whenever I need to 
> find out about something (rather than going to the redhat archive). 
> 
> I use Kmail on a Tualatin 1.4 Ghz, 512 MB and a 7200 RPM IDE disk. I now have 
> 24,219 messages on the folder. I'm NOW starting to feel it.  Although I was 
> used to the 6-8 seconds it took Kmail to load...now when I click on the 
> Fedora-list folder, it takes about 1.5 seconds before it shows me a message 
> at all.
> 
> What do you recommend me? 
> 
> Should I:
> 
> 1> Buy a 10K RPM SCSI hard-disk? (would I notice a big improvement?)
> 2> Switch to maildir format?
> 3> Delete old msg's and get the habit of using redhat archive?
> 
> Comments are welcome!

Can't you just move older mail (say every 2 months) into a different
mbox-file/folder? (and whenever searching - do it across them all)

BTW: archives at gmane.org have pretty decent search feature.

Satish