I HATE Evolution ! Thunderbird ?
Arthur Pemberton
pemboa at gmail.com
Mon Jun 9 21:11:00 UTC 2008
On Mon, Jun 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM, Aaron Konstam <akonstam at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:56 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> On Monday 09 June 2008 19:31:54 linuxguy wrote:
>> > On Mon, 2008-06-09 at 19:21 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > > On Monday 09 June 2008 19:08:46 linuxguy wrote:
>> > > > My email setup is 6 different gmail accounts, being sorted into about
>> > > > 25 folders via rules. The largest folder has about 150,000 messages
>> > > > in it. The smallest one has 5,000 messages in it.
>> > > >
>> > > > Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ? How does it compare ? How
>> > > > hard is it to move over to it ?
>> > >
>> > > I don't recall what choices Tbird gives you, but whatever you do, don't
>> > > put that number of messages into mbox folders. That isn't what you have
>> > > now, by any chance, is it? If so, that's the cause of your problem.
>> >
>> > I've got a folder with 150,000 messages, yes. Its not usually the one
>> > that gives the problem though. Almost always the one that gives the
>> > problem is the one that is open when you first start the application. I
>> > think there is a bug in retrieving the current message for viewing and
>> > receiving a new email into the folder.
>> >
>> > What is one supposed to do with large email folders, besides manually
>> > breaking them up ?
>>
>> If mail folders are maildir it doesn't matter how many messages you have in
>> them. Each message is stored as an individual file. In an mbox folder each
>> message is tagged on to the end of the existing file. When you get several
>> thousand messages in an mbox folder you have one mighty big file. Consider
>> what happens -
>>
>> You decide that a certain thread of messages is of no interest to you, so you
>> delete the thread. First the whole folder - thousands of messages - have to
>> be read in. Then the messages have to be identified and deleted out of the
>> middle of the file. Finally the compacted file has to be written to disk.
>> It works fine for small folders, but slows dramatically as the file grows.
>>
>> Anne
> And what happens if you have 150,000 individual messages and you want to
> delete a thread? You think that will be faster than with a single mbox
> file? I doubt it.
yes I think it would be.
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