From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
Message-Id: <200410011456.i91Eu1R13871@zamenhof.cs.utwente.nl>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"
In-reply-to: Your message of "Fri, 01 Oct 2004 10:49:02 -0400."
	<14096ba5db5eb3013ad32ee1a3efa237@coraid.com> 
References: <14096ba5db5eb3013ad32ee1a3efa237@coraid.com> 
From: Axel Belinfante <Axel.Belinfante@cs.utwente.nl>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
Date: Fri,  1 Oct 2004 16:56:01 +0200
Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb74478c-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025

> > 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.