On date Saturday 2007-02-03 14:55:59 -0500, Javier Rojas muttered: > Hi, > > I'm using maildir to store my mail. However, some folders have gotten > quite large (1000+ msgs), and mutt takes a lot of time opening them. > > My FS is ReiserFS, and I already am using the "noatime" and "nodiratime" > options. > > I have two questions: > 1. Is it possible to accelerate mutt's access to large mailboxes, > beyond of what I did with my FS? > 2. How large do you let your maildir mailboxes grow before creating > archives of it?
Six months... :-) ...then I have a weekly user cron script that puts all the mails in archive/recent/* older than six months in corresponding archive/old/<maildir-name>-<year> maildirs. In this way I hardly get maildirs with more than 1000 messages. Have a look at the archivemail program (you can either set the maximum size of the maildir/mailbox to refresh). HTH -- Stefano Sabatini Linux user number 337176 (see http://counter.li.org)
