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Tried this, it sat for 12 hours on "loading..." without success even though my inbox only has 17k mails in it. Given that neomutt is working fine, it's not a h

Tried this, it sat for 12 hours on "loading..." without success even though my inbox only has 17k mails in it. Given that neomutt is working fine, it's not a huge problem but it's always nice to have options.

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
> my inbox only has 17k mails in it I can't tell if you're intentionally joking or are actually unaware of that being maybe a little much.
- bugmen0t 4y ago
  It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.
  - yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
    Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.
    - zimpenfish 4y ago
      Oh, it's a nonsense, definitely, but it only gets cleaned out every 6 months or thereabouts and I've not yet translated the rules in my cleaning script to Sieve rules to do it automatically.
    - seszett 4y ago
      What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades? Because I haven't, and having everything in one folder works just fine with the clients I use.
      - yonrg 4y ago
        I use two folders, inbox (currently active mails, also sent ones) and trash, which is the ever growing pile of mails. Most importantly is the use of a mail indexer (notmuch currently) for searching and getting virtual mailbox viewes.
      - Jorengarenar 4y ago
        I delete e-mails the moment I don't need them anymore. Right now, on my main mail, I have ~400 mails in Trash, but only 10 in Inbox and Archive + another dozen in Sent.
        seszett 4y ago
        I sometimes wish to find emails that I couldn't have known I would need again. Right now, I've been looking for the email address of the landlord of the house I lived in until 2009. I'm happy that I didn't remove his email saying that his son would come on Friday to fix the door handle.
- Avamander 4y ago
  It really shouldn't be too much. It's not the 80s. The same letters slapped into SQLite the most brute way would work (and perform better), so why the embarrassing slowdown?
- Ndymium 4y ago
  Is it much? I have around 120k emails in my inbox. macOS Mail.app opens it in a jiffy. Computers are supposed to be fast nowadays.
- johnklos 4y ago
  I have 93,000 emails in my mail spool, and it opens in Pine in about 30 seconds on a 1 GHz AlphaServer, even when lots of other stuff is running at the same time.
- jlokier 4y ago
  Hm. I just checked and my ~/Mail/inbox has 1.38 million messages. That doesn't include most mailing lists, because those are sorted into their own separate folders using procmail. I use Neomutt with Notmuch, btw. It generally loads in a fraction of a second. I used to try to keep on top of mail. I don't any more.
epilys 4y ago
Try using the latest commit if you're not already since the last tagged release had a lot of bugs that have been solved. Otherwise, could you file a bug in the issue tracker? https://git.meli.delivery/meli/meli/issues https://git.meli.delivery/meli/meli/issues

yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago

> my inbox only has 17k mails in it I can't tell if you're intentionally joking or are actually unaware of that being maybe a little much.

bugmen0t 4y ago
It shouldn’t be. IMAP doesn’t have to download all of them.
- yjftsjthsd-h 4y ago
  Oh, that's fair. I was questioning the reasonableness of having 17k emails but you're right, the software should be able to support it.
  - zimpenfish 4y ago
    Oh, it's a nonsense, definitely, but it only gets cleaned out every 6 months or thereabouts and I've not yet translated the rules in my cleaning script to Sieve rules to do it automatically.
  - seszett 4y ago
    What are you doing with your old emails? Do you delete them? Or have you found a method to archive them that produces few folders with few emails in each and that works consistently over the decades? Because I haven't, and having everything in one folder works just fine with the clients I use.
    - yonrg 4y ago
      I use two folders, inbox (currently active mails, also sent ones) and trash, which is the ever growing pile of mails. Most importantly is the use of a mail indexer (notmuch currently) for searching and getting virtual mailbox viewes.
    - Jorengarenar 4y ago
      I delete e-mails the moment I don't need them anymore. Right now, on my main mail, I have ~400 mails in Trash, but only 10 in Inbox and Archive + another dozen in Sent.
      - seszett 4y ago
        I sometimes wish to find emails that I couldn't have known I would need again. Right now, I've been looking for the email address of the landlord of the house I lived in until 2009. I'm happy that I didn't remove his email saying that his son would come on Friday to fix the door handle.
Avamander 4y ago
It really shouldn't be too much. It's not the 80s. The same letters slapped into SQLite the most brute way would work (and perform better), so why the embarrassing slowdown?
Ndymium 4y ago
Is it much? I have around 120k emails in my inbox. macOS Mail.app opens it in a jiffy. Computers are supposed to be fast nowadays.
johnklos 4y ago
I have 93,000 emails in my mail spool, and it opens in Pine in about 30 seconds on a 1 GHz AlphaServer, even when lots of other stuff is running at the same time.
jlokier 4y ago
Hm. I just checked and my ~/Mail/inbox has 1.38 million messages. That doesn't include most mailing lists, because those are sorted into their own separate folders using procmail. I use Neomutt with Notmuch, btw. It generally loads in a fraction of a second. I used to try to keep on top of mail. I don't any more.

epilys 4y ago

Try using the latest commit if you're not already since the last tagged release had a lot of bugs that have been solved. Otherwise, could you file a bug in the issue tracker? https://git.meli.delivery/meli/meli/issues https://git.meli.delivery/meli/meli/issues