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From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"
Date: Fri,  1 Oct 2004 16:56:01 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200410011456.i91Eu1R13871@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:49:02 -0400." <14096ba5db5eb3013ad32ee1a3efa237@coraid.com>

> > but the thing that most needs fixing (for my usage pattern anyway) is
> > the way that upas/fs reads the entire mailbox into RAM. i get around
> > this by periodically archiving my mailbox, deleting all but the most
> > recent 6 month's worth of messages, but i'd prefer not to do this.
> 
> I agree.  I have a user who accesses his mail box from pop and keeps
> all the mail on the server.  He has run up pretty large mail boxes
> in the past.

trying to read a cd-size archive of a single mail folder can be fun too.

Axel.



  reply	other threads:[~2004-10-01 14:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-10-01 14:03 Sam
2004-10-01 13:19 ` rog
2004-10-01 13:56   ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-01 14:45     ` rog
2004-10-01 14:42       ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 14:51         ` Axel Belinfante
2004-10-01 14:58           ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 15:18             ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-01 16:27               ` C H Forsyth
2004-10-02 22:28                 ` Skip Tavakkolian
2004-10-02 22:55                   ` George Michaelson
2004-10-02 23:22                     ` andrey mirtchovski
2004-10-01 14:54         ` rog
2004-10-01 16:59           ` Richard Miller
2004-10-01 15:01     ` Russ Cox
2004-10-01 14:49   ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-01 14:56     ` Axel Belinfante [this message]
2004-10-01 14:56     ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 14:59       ` Brantley Coile
2004-10-01 15:07         ` Fco. J. Ballesteros
2004-10-01 15:16       ` rog
2004-10-01 15:24         ` boyd, rounin
2004-10-04 12:33 Caerwyn B Jones
2004-10-04 12:39 ` Russ Cox
2004-10-04 14:13 Caerwyn B Jones

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