From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2014 18:58:00 +0000 Message-ID: <20141012185800.Horde.GM8N3GORMUVkqvK7EOf-zQ1@ssl.eumx.net> From: Kurt H Maier To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> References: In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) H5 (6.1.6) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed; DelSp=Yes MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Subject: Re: [9fans] Setting up Mail in Acme on the Raspberry Pi. Topicbox-Message-UUID: 1a9314ac-ead9-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 Quoting Steve Simon : > I am fairly sure the problem is to do with RAM size rather than the > raspberry pi per-se. > 4000 messages takes up a lot of space - and upas stores messages in RAM. > > Personally I save needed mail messages in named archives and try to > keep the number > of messages in my inbox doen to the 10s. > > Erik has nupas which reworks much to keep a file per message on disk, though > I'am not sure how thsi works with gmail (imap4 I assume). > > -Steve nupas has done very well with large mailboxes, although I haven't accessed a multithousand-message account with less than 256MB ram. I'm unfamiliar with rpi-class subparcomputing but nupas should work okay with comparatively little ram. the primary reason that we haven't pushed to replace upas with nupas by default in 9front is insufficent testing with the mbox format. khm