Re: speed issues with large mailboxes

[Mpiktas <vaze0348 uosis mif vu lt>]

Hi,

> 
> Indeed there is an issue with large mailboxes. For now
> we use libmutt (which is mutt rearranged as a library)
> which IIRC parses the whole mbox file when you open a
> mailbox. To fix that we could only parse "partially"
> the mailbox, but this means that we have to rewrite
> part of the code if not all; but as you notice balsa
> is still responsive during this huge loading (it is
> done in another thread than the one controlling GUI),
> so it is not that bad.

As I said, I use Debian Sid, and it appears that it is compiled without --
enable-threads. I added --enable-threads into debian/rules file and recompiled 
Balsa. It became more responsive, yet opening large mailbox (2800 mails) still
makes Balsa unresponsive.

Mpiktas

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