This time Steffen Barszus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> becomes daring and writes:
> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 17:15, Brook Humphrey wrote: >> On Wednesday 12 February 2003 07:01 am, Jean-Michel Dault wrote: >> > Le mer 12/02/2003 à 11:36, Brook Humphrey a écrit : >> > > If like me you have found no other email on the planet that can handle >> > > over 100,000 email's accept for kmail( I really cant say enough good >> > > things about By the way there is one other program but it is under >> > > windows called the bat. Outlook and Outlook express barf at about >> > > 10,000 email's. > > Wow my OE crashed at 3500. Eudora bailed out at 7000. They increased Eudora's resistance in the last 6 years...it used to bail at a bit over 5k emails :) > >> > > Evolution doe not do well with a large amount of email >> > > either. As we speak my Mail directory takes up 1.1 gig of space. Did I >> > > say how great kmail is. >> > >> > Running Evolution 1.0.8 here, many mailing lists, all split into about >> > 200 subfolders. Even then some folders, like php-bugs, have over 30,000 >> > messages. I have *lots* of filters, and I get only 1 or 2 unfiltered >> > SPAM per day. >> > >> > [jmdault@JMLAP jmdault]$ du -s evolution/ >> > 1.4G evolution >> > [jmdault@JMLAP jmdault]$ cat /proc/cpuinfo |grep MHz >> > cpu MHz : 745.254 >> > [jmdault@JMLAP jmdault]$ cat /proc/meminfo |grep MemTotal >> > MemTotal: 255436 kB >> > >> > Jean-Michel >> >> Wow they fixed it since the last time I used it but then you are probably >> the only other person on the face of the planet with as much email. We are >> the email elite. I still wont use evolution though. Thanks for letting me >> know that it works better now though. > > *g* no I guess there are more people. I have around 50.000 and kmail handles > it very good. And ermmm I would not call it elite, I would call it messy ;) > since I don't like throw emails away, there could be something in it I need > after throwing it away :D And I found out now how to handle mailinglists > correct in kmail (how to get a list-reply with the "L" Key ;)) I use gnus, and backup-to-CD-and-delete my mail when it hits around 100,000 total mails (uhm...every 3 or 4 months, I think...Lisp slows down the world at around that number :) I have backups of bitnet logs and emails from 1988 in CDs here somewhere ;) Vox, the info-packrat -- Think of the Linux community as a niche economy isolated by its beliefs. Kind of like the Amish, except that our religion requires us to use _higher_ technology than everyone else. -- Donald B. Marti Jr.
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