[kdepim-users] kmail dilemma

[Roy J. Tellason]

On Wednesday 14 May 2008 18:41, Robert Smits wrote:
> On May 14, 2008 01:36:54 pm Mihai Donțu wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I have an interesting (for me) dilemma: I have converted some of my
> > maildir folders to mbox (because it took almost 30s to enter them, at
> > times) and noticed significant improvement (almost instant access to
> > mails), but after I restarted KMail, everything went back to working very
> > slow.
> >
> > Some folders have ~100000 mails and when I click them, the CPU barely
> > jumps to 20-30% usage and after 20-30s, bam! the mails.
> >
> > Did someone forget a sleep(1) somewhere in the code, or what? :)
> >
> > Thanks,
>
> Er...can I ask why you keep so many emails in one folder?
>
> If you're archiving them, you can right click on a folder, and set the
> expire properties to copy old emails into a separate folder for archive
> purposes. This will really speed up access to your mail, I think.

I have a fair number of such folders here.  The fact that they're only ever 
added to and *never* deleted from doesn't seem to stop the software from 
taking the time (my time!   When I'm trying to get the software to do 
something else!) and "compacting" them anyhow.

I suspect that there are perhaps other ways in which things are getting slowed 
down by having so much mail on hand as well,  though I don't think I have 
100000 of them in one folder anywhere.

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ablest -- form of life in this section of space,  a critter that can
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