Re: huge mailboxes

[Yachar Tajahmady <yachar libertysurf fr>]

Hello

I'm using balsa and I'm another fan of mailing lists ;-)
But I'm wondering what you call "huge files".
I'm currently having mboxes with more than 500 messages in it, and it takes
no more than 1 second to open (the first time you load it).
For info, I'm using a Pentium III 800 with 512 Mb RAM.

But for sure, why not improve the overall performance, it cannot hurt.
The problem with compressed mailbox is that one wouldn't be able to read
his mail with mutt anymore, for example. Or perhaps I am missing something
?


Le dim, 22 jui 2001 10:37:46, Steffen Klemer a écrit :
> Hi @ all,
> 
> as I'm a "fan" of mboxes and mailinglists I have the problem of huge
> files
> and long loading times in balsa.
> Sometimes it takes up to 10 seconds only to open a single box (and that
> on
> my Athlon 800).
> So I wanted to ask for sth. like an index-file or so (like netscape and
> kmail do it) and a compressing feature (only as a feature in the
> options-menu, not as standart...).
> 
> Some time ago this idea was already discussed but as I think that there
> was
> no final decision I wanted to start a new thread about that... ;-)
> 
> cu
> /Steffen
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