From: Gregory Heytings <gregory@heytings.org>
To: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively
Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:58:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <0d1ea3007fde6d8333c1@heytings.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1oxSAf-0007q6-TF@fencepost.gnu.org>
>> I'm just trying to explain why mbox files are incompatible with the way
>> most people deal with their mails nowadays.
>
> The situation looks symmetrical to me.
>
> I fear that maildirs are incompatible with the way I use email.
>
> I really am intrerested in the answers to the questions I asked about
> slownesses that might -- or might not -- be a problem for use of
> maildirs. If they are not in fact a problem, I'd like to know that.
>
They are not a problem. Mail user agents which support Maildirs index the
individual mails in a database, either an (small) index of the headers or
a (larger) "full text" index. With such an index even opening a folder
with tens of thousands of messages only takes a fraction of a second.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-11-22 12:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 83+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-10-05 18:31 Summary by thread in rmail Andrea Monaco
2022-10-05 18:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-05 23:40 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-06 22:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-07 10:17 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-07 11:24 ` Emanuel Berg
2022-10-09 20:33 ` [PATCH] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively (was: Summary by thread in rmail) Andrea Monaco
2022-10-10 7:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-10 8:38 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-10 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-11 7:16 ` [PATCH v2] " Andrea Monaco
2022-10-11 8:13 ` [PATCH v2] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Robert Pluim
2022-10-12 9:35 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-12 11:03 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-12 12:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 18:13 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-12 18:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-12 22:02 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-19 14:23 ` [PATCH v3] " Andrea Monaco
2022-10-19 14:55 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-20 15:45 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-20 16:02 ` Robert Pluim
2022-10-20 19:00 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-21 19:42 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-21 19:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-10-27 14:27 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 15:22 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-10-28 13:26 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-06 7:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-07 14:13 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-08 5:02 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-08 8:04 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-10 4:04 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-10 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-10 8:53 ` Robert Pluim
2022-11-11 4:36 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11 8:06 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 14:59 ` Juanma Barranquero
2022-11-11 17:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 17:32 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-11 18:00 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-11 18:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 18:52 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-11 18:54 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-11 19:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 19:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-11 20:50 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-12 3:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-12 7:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 6:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-12 16:30 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-12 17:44 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-12 18:13 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-14 8:39 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-15 4:18 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-15 9:56 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-16 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-16 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-24 18:25 ` Andrea Monaco
2022-11-28 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-15 17:00 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-15 9:35 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-16 3:15 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-19 14:47 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-20 17:37 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-20 19:36 ` Gregory Heytings
2022-11-22 12:14 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-22 12:58 ` Gregory Heytings [this message]
2022-11-28 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-23 20:57 ` chad
2022-11-24 6:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-28 21:38 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-26 0:51 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-11 18:22 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2022-11-12 3:35 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-12 7:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-11-14 3:13 ` Richard Stallman
2022-11-17 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-27 13:58 ` [PATCH v2] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively (was: Summary by thread in rmail) Eli Zaretskii
2022-10-10 22:03 ` [PATCH] " Richard Stallman
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