Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature"

[rog@vitanuova.com]

> Once the message is here, reading it into ram is not a serious
> problem unless you keep many many messages or very big ones.

i like to keep a record of all the significant mail i've received.
it helps my faulty memory.

that means that i do keep lots of messages around.
du /mail/box/rog gives 136MB and my current
mailbox is 31MB, which leads to a memory usage for
upas/fs of about 54MB - quite a lot of memory to expend
on stuff that i mostly don't look at (although i grep through
the sender, subject and date quite often).

the real problem is attachments - someone will send me
a 20MB email containing some important text and a load
of pictures. i'd prefer not to have to delete such emails (or
segregate them into a different mailbox).

russ:
> marking something as read isn't so interesting unless it
> appears differently than unread messages - like not at all.
> if you're going to add a read bit, i'd like to see just the unread
> messages somehow, perhaps even by default.

this could just be one possible view. rather than having several
mailboxes, one could have several different views onto
the same mailbox, each with its own selection criteria.