From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] acme mail "feature" Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 16:16:54 +0100 From: rog@vitanuova.com In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: eb99d434-eacd-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > 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.