Re: dealing with a lot of emails in single dir

On Tue, Aug 17 2021, Aurélien Aptel wrote: > Hi, > > How do you deal with a maildir with a billion file in it? I'm on ext4 > which should handle it but I can already feel some programs struggle > with a dir with that many entries (noticeable slow down). That reminded me: http://be-n.com/spw/you-

dealing with a lot of emails in single dir

Hi, How do you deal with a maildir with a billion file in it? I'm on ext4 which should handle it but I can already feel some programs struggle with a dir with that many entries (noticeable slow down). I was thinking of archiving emails in yearly folders. How does notmuch deal with moving emails a