From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v1278) From: Matthew Veety In-Reply-To: Date: Sat, 19 May 2012 23:30:11 -0400 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Message-Id: References: <38C1E109-2459-4711-8038-240857CE08E1@gmail.com> To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net> Subject: Re: [9fans] Reading gmail Topicbox-Message-UUID: 9370d636-ead7-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 On May 15, 2012, at 4:43 AM, erik quanstrom wrote: > On Mon May 14 23:58:41 EDT 2012, mveety@gmail.com wrote: >>=20 >> On May 14, 2012, at 11:51 PM, John Floren wrote: >>>=20 >>> If you have a large number of messages, Erik's "nupas" is useful; = IIRC >>> it will cache messages locally so you don't have to download a ton = of >>> headers each time you start upas. >>>=20 >>> However I've found that with both old upas and nupas, there are some >>> messages that make them choke. Sadly I can't remember what triggered >>> it. >>>=20 >>> john >>>=20 >>=20 >> My 16,000 message inbox usually make nupas and upas shit the bed. = I've never had specific messages kill it though. >=20 > the nupas core should be ok with 16k messages >=20 > minooka; mail -f bigmbox > 45465 messages, 44899 unread > : q >=20 > on the other hand, i can easily believe the imap mailbox type > can't handle this. i haven't used imap mailboxes much, and > when i did, they were very small. if you have specific ideas, > and or observed problems, i'd be glad to incorporate them. >=20 > - erik >=20 It's imap. My other mail clients don't have much issue with it (alpine = will choke on a slow connection), but my work machine (running 9front) = is having definite issues. I'll totally look into this more for you, = Erik. PS. You have >44000 unread messages?!?!?!?!? -- Veety=