Re: large mailbox

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From: Peter C. McCluskey (pcm@rahul.net)
Date: Thu Apr 17 2003 - 19:18:52 CDT


 Micheon.Eubanks@Sun.Com (Micheon Eubanks) writes:
>I have a large mailbox(over 95066 messages) it takes forever to create
>a new archive but after I create the archive I just want the new
>messages added to the existing list. It seems when the new messages
>come in all the existing headers are re-read(95066 headers are re-read)
>and this, again will take time. Is there something in the
>configuration I can do to speed things up. I don't care about
>appending the messages to the mailbox as long as the messages are stored.

 If you're using the incremental mode, try "usegdbm = 1".

 Also, verify that you're using "overwrite = 0".

 Other than those, there aren't many things that affect the speed.

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