>>> Hi, I’ve got ~600k messages across two accounts, and performing a “simple” >>> search (e.g. using search bar, typing “mailmate”, hitting enter) takes >>> about ~10-20 seconds to get results. Is there anything I can do to improve >>> that initial time to results short of deleting a bunch of old email? >> >> I always thought the search was actually on your local copy of all the mail >> account files, so therefore is as fast/slow as your access to CPU and Disk. >>
The fact that MailMate stores messages as individual files adds considerable overhead to any file operations - including search - assuming there's no index that can assist. Try zipping up a 100 MB file, then try zipping up that same 100 MB when it's composed of 100,000 tiny files. Or copying those two file sets to a flash drive. You'll see the sort of thing I'm talking about. :) Not a knock on MailMate in any way. I can't think of any .eml based mail client that could do the job any better. _______________________________________________ mailmate mailing list [email protected] https://lists.freron.com/listinfo/mailmate
