* Cameron Simpson <[email protected]> [02-17-14 18:23]:
 [...]
> Currently I use mbox for:
> 
>   - all my archive folders (I have 'd' mapped to archive)
> 
>   - my inbox (considering switching back to maildir)
> 
>   - many of my other folders
> 
> It is a trade off, but with the heder cache, maildirs tend to be
> very faster indeed.

I have tons of mail, all in mbox.  Header caching works for mbox also :^)
I find mbox plenty fast from non ssd drive over nfs with header caching. 
I have 7 or 8 with > 10000 msgs but keep my working instance of mutt alive
in a tmux, similar to screen, session.  But still even over nfs I seldom
see a wait > 5 or 6 seconds for a *new* instance of mutt.

For better local control, I frequently even run a *local* instance of mutt
with ~/.muttrc adjusted to access the remote nfs mail files.  


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