From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gregory Heytings Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively Date: Tue, 22 Nov 2022 12:58:36 +0000 Message-ID: <0d1ea3007fde6d8333c1@heytings.org> References: <87r0y8m5jc.fsf@autistici.org> <34e17bf2a696327b972f@heytings.org> <518ded72c37a31fdd6a9@heytings.org> <7cc9e037860ffbc89d28@heytings.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=us-ascii Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="416"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: andrea.monaco@autistici.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Richard Stallman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 22 13:59:19 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 1oxSrv-000AVC-Hz for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 13:59:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxSrN-0006hS-Th; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:58:45 -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 1oxSrK-0006hA-RR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:58:43 -0500 Original-Received: from heytings.org ([95.142.160.155]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1oxSrJ-0005mO-8b; Tue, 22 Nov 2022 07:58:42 -0500 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=heytings.org; s=20220101; t=1669121917; bh=6WRZfRayzk68CFu3u1a3DIZA6zU+GoZXDMCGiWXjO3c=; h=Date:From:To:cc:Subject:In-Reply-To:Message-ID:References:From; b=nKEgzsRT8U3JPosSzEiad1TBmifDVoCchkE0GMXZIOfT3wQvQebEUhPSp8Ny+Ly4F +7lUEW3bIr2s5yDAJAq2/nzKU0U5dwC/ujUn0hpSzDMxM9i/ypC10LA1O4a8f7pQ1m SxWo02It3AxEo6vzbuhbQPuzssDNjso+jVHHr6b0M58PPTzZ3VfHHzcaGZBuBL7X3x VBAPJvjIDO3BXopI5KRluClAFCEi5oJ845tQLKTZIgZggMtAByW+NjxVBROvs+ohJI km1KFKTjzAAtWt6FIq1FQ/7OUtzAADYfaHhvyRqKqcSynywItC6pI6yUfWp+gBYUeN xks9smf55N96Q== In-Reply-To: Received-SPF: pass client-ip=95.142.160.155; envelope-from=gregory@heytings.org; helo=heytings.org X-Spam_score_int: -20 X-Spam_score: -2.1 X-Spam_bar: -- X-Spam_report: (-2.1 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, DKIM_SIGNED=0.1, DKIM_VALID=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_AU=-0.1, DKIM_VALID_EF=-0.1, SPF_HELO_PASS=-0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action 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:300331 Archived-At: >> 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.