You should not keep that many messages in a working 'folder' (indeed file). You'd better initialize a new one for high traffic folder yearly, quarterly or even monthly.
For sent folder, I'll rename the file to sent.2001 soon in the end of this year. best regards, charlie -- On Thu, Dec 27, 2001 at 12:27:40AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > Is there a way to make it so that when I use the "c" command to change to > a different folder, the original one remains open? > > My ~/Maildir/ folder has 10000 messages, and my =sent folder has 6000 > messages, so it's slow to switch between them if they get closed each time > I switch. > > BTW, I just noticed a minor "bug": If I'm in my sent mail folder and I > compose a message, it will say "Mailbox was externally modified. Flags > may be wrong." due to it writing a new message into the sent mail folder.
