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The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clientsThe Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clientsPosted Jun 30, 2004 18:41 UTC (Wed) by im14u2c (subscriber, #5246)In reply to: The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients by jwb Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients
If you have 100000 messages in maildir format, it might actually be the<I> kernel </I>slowing you down, reading through that directory. You might google around and look for ext2 performance stats on huge directories. That's what spawned all that dirhash stuff awhile back.
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The Grumpy Editor's guide to graphical mail clients Posted Jun 30, 2004 18:57 UTC (Wed) by jwb (subscriber, #15467) [Link] Yes I agree, dirhash is the best. But the point is that it's much faster to read exactly the same maildir using Courier IMAP than it is to read it using mutt.
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