Re: [orca-list] Trisquel

[Krishnakant Mane <krmane gmail com>]

On 06/08/2012 02:54 AM, Alex Midence wrote:
> Smart policy.  It's a good idea to go to a point about 2 weeks or at most a month in the past and just do a control 
> shift end to select to end of list, cut and past into a folder labeled "archived" or something.  This way, 
> your inbox is kept small.  I've had slowness issues with past Thunderbir versions and Orca where if I let my inbox go 
> above 200 or so, it would freeze up completely when I launched it and I'd hear my cooling fan cool up and speech begin 
> to crackle.  It was unusable that way and made me switch to alpine on that machine.  I'm running Precise with whatever 
> the latest thunderbird is on there along with Orca 3.4.2 or 3 depending on what's in Proposed at the moment and I've 
> got about 400 message in my inbox.  It is running fine.
I have at least 750 or so messages off late which I really need.
Will try with that many messages and see the result.
I may have about a 1000 emails which I have downloaded off line and I 
frequently need them, out of which about 700 are really important.
This limitation of having only few emails must be looked at by 
Thunderbird guys.

> Question: Why on Earth do you need 6500 e-mails?  When will you ever get time to read them all?  Have you 
> ever considered exporting them to an archive file like a .gz or .bz2 file?

Yes you are right.
I do it always.
I have more than 25000 emails and most of them are archived.
Happy hacking
Krishnakant.