Re: [PATCH] Mail fetching on memory-poor machines

[Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>]

Stainless Steel Rat <ratinox@peorth.gweep.net> writes:

> * Jim Pick <jim@jimpick.com>  on Wed, 14 Jul 1999
> | I'm using an nnfolder backend.
> 
> Don't use nnfolder.  Use nnml instead.

Bzzt.  Wrong answer.

I like nnfolder.

I'm not going to waste that many inodes.  It takes forever to back it
up using rsync.  I know, I've been using nnml for the past year, and
just recently switched to nnfolder.

My patch fixes the problem for me.  Spectacularily.  I presented it to
the list so that others might benefit.

Why not fix the problem?  The results of the problem are so bad that
it's basically a bug.  Fixing it seems like a more logical thing to
do, rather than force everybody to use the program in a certain way.

(granted, my fix might not be optimal - if I got some feedback on what
was wrong or right with the approach, I might develop a patch suitable
for inclusion)

Cheers,

 - Jim