Re: saving nnfolders

[Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com>]

Alan Shutko <ats@acm.org> wrote:

> Dmitry Yaitskov <dimas@home.com> writes:
> 
> > 1. Have nnfolders save themselves each time a message is added (disk
> >    access if fast; losing articles - or having to restore them from
> >    auto saves - is bad).
> 
> This is doubleplus-unfast if you're gzipping 30MB nnfolders, and
> you're copying a few hundred messages into them at a time.  (My former
> usage pattern... now I don't gzip, but saving a 30MB file 150 times
> in a row is not fast by any stretch of the imagination.)

I won't be usually be copying a few hundred messages at a time - I use
nnfolders to "expire" old messages to - so usually it won't be more
than I sent/received per day expiration time days ago - maybe ten or
so messages at max. So the speed does not bother me much.

> In any case, there's no predefined functionality.  A patch was posted
> a few weeks ago to save every article move, but nothing to have the
> buffers delete.

Can you point me to the patch (or any key words that I should search
for)? I tried looking for something like that but didn't find
anything. Thx.

-- 
Cheers,
-Dima.