From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu
Subject: Re: [9fans] upas/fs support for mh folders?
From: rog@vitanuova.com
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Date: Tue, 14 May 2002 17:15:53 +0100
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> upas/fs keeps your mailbox in memory.

this is really annoying if you haven't got hods of memory and people
are in the habit of sending you attachments.

i don't know if it's just me, but i like having my old email easily
accessible; the current scheme forces me to occasionally truncate my
inbox of the first 1500 messages or so to avoid horrible swapping
behaviour.

it's interesting to see how slowly the plumbing transmits the deleted
message information (about 3 or 4 messages a second) when i've used

echo '1,1500s mbox.old
1,1500d' | mail -r

to do the transfer.

while we're on the subject, here are a few things i've wished
to see in (acme) mail:

o marking messages with meta-information (e.g. unread, needs reply, replied)
o a scheme that avoided the entire mbox being rewritten every day
	(not such a problem when the system moves to venti)
o one-click transferral to another named mailbox
o deletion of many messages without having to open each one individually
	(or firing up upas/nedmail)
o deletion of attached message parts without deleting the message itself
	(useful when a friend sends a chatty message with huge attached photos)

however i don't know how many of these are realisable (or even desirable in general!)

  cheers,
    rog.