From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:38:28 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87r0y8m5jc.fsf@autistici.org> <34e17bf2a696327b972f@heytings.org> <518ded72c37a31fdd6a9@heytings.org> <7cc9e037860ffbc89d28@heytings.org> <0d1ea3007fde6d8333c1@heytings.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="31552"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Gregory Heytings Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 28 22:39:21 2022 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlqT-0007xP-Ex for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 22:39:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlpf-0006Yr-92; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:38:31 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlpd-0006Y0-Lb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:38:29 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlpc-00064G-Ip; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:38:28 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; q=dns/txt; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gnu.org; s=fencepost-gnu-org; h=Date:References:Subject:In-Reply-To:To:From: mime-version; bh=MvWCOtqb1/33s9YF4S5lac78ro/nCTz8lSpN5fagAIU=; b=YreTTV96te8h htmeNec78yrCPVVEXQSy24kMxbs/1UOEpCM1rVJ0bP/Utk+0rMWcbVtZ3jpCVfOpEhy2N69hmKZkF VqCq2W4bZKGQnd8yldnvFSOzq+yHMw6Og4j3PId+gdbzgztmyzcLt0tTHSLdtz9HwsxqNsUDJM2pj torKvsin8eHDsrxKnPdAw9iRz65eP9iia0+5yLfuiYIuTSzewo22X6XzwTt2rwUUJwYO/M/yWzqi3 d52oU8NJg4k3QRW4uljS+SEyecLpa13L5ldeggsYap5CvUahc63kq1hcipIOPg3gH8Y1Pl+hgWt+U 2GzkoOFuXqW8Y6G4gj/XVg==; Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1ozlpc-0006PX-BV; Mon, 28 Nov 2022 16:38:28 -0500 In-Reply-To: <0d1ea3007fde6d8333c1@heytings.org> (message from Gregory Heytings on Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:58:36 +0000) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:300694 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > 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. Thanks. It seems to be a good solution as long as the mail agent knows how to recalculate the database when the directory has changed. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)