On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 03:11:38PM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> On 8/18/13, Kumar Appaiah <a.ku...@alumni.iitm.ac.in> wrote:
> > On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 02:52:05AM +1000, Zenaan Harkness wrote:
> >> In GahNU, answer find you :)
> >>
> >> But you ought to do your bit and find duckduckgo while you're at it.
> >
> > I am doing some searching myself, but I did want some opinions from
> > the list. Thank you for sharing your opinions.
>
> All good.
>
> I am also interested in the indexing side. Please do let us know what
> solution you find which works well for your email storage volume.
>
> About 6 years ago I encouraged a friend to move from OutlookExpress to
> Thunderbird, for libre reasons, and for getting familiar with software
> which is cross-platform to GNU/Linux.
> They had about 3GiB of OutlookExpress files, with many folders, and
> Thunderbird I think managed to import them all, BUT was significantly
> slower for searching and everything, so they could not practically
> make the switch at the time. They were running an 2000-era Pentium4
> 2GHz, 1G RAM, 120G laptop HDD.
Personally, I use Mutt myself. I used to use mboxes, but recently
converted to Maildirs due to the fact that notmuch makes searching
very easy and fast. My current ext4 solution seems to work well, but I
was just wondering whether this approach would scale well.
> Good luck, and I do hope you find a great solution to large mailbox
> storing and searching!
Wish you the same. Thanks.
Kumar
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