Re: balsa, and other graphics mailer are slow

[Rich Rudnick <nickrud citlink net>]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2001 at 09:51:03PM +0100, Lorenzo Delana wrote:
> 
> Anyone have never tried to read a /var/spool/mail/<user>
> with about 10000 messages ?
> about 5 minutes with mozilla mail and balsa...
> about 10 secs with "mutt".
> 
> The problem, is that BALSA retain in memory all readed messages,
> but the memory isn't an optional... I propose to modify the code
> of balsa introducing the indexing of message and read on demand.
> 
> 
> lore
> mailto:ldelana@libero.it
> 
> 

I'm just a lurking, non-programming balsa hopeful.  I hope your 
proposal fixes balsa's achilles' heel: 10+ minutes to open my 
larger mailboxes, and 100M+ of memory usage. 
-- 
Rich Rudnick

nickrud@citlink.net