On 17Feb14 18:50 +0000, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> My inbox has now reached the grand total of 100,000 messages (_exactly_
> 100,000, coincidentally enough).   This is partly a result of me being
> subscribed to too many mailing lists, and partly of me not getting
> around to clearing things out.

mbox or maildir?

> (Yes, I know I could do clever things to split incoming messages amongst
> several mailboxes, but I don't _want_ to.)

I also have just two mailboxes.
inbox and trash! That's enough.
For sorting/splitting there is mairix (or plain mutt searching) :)

I started to use trash as my 2nd level mailbox, because startup of mutt took too
long.

Because deleting mails rewrote my entire mbox, I switched over to maildir, so 
no rewriting of the
mbox file is necessary.

Cheers,
Bastian

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