Re: Avoiding the "huge INBOX of death"

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+From: David Bremner <david@tethera.net>\r
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+ =?utf-8?q?Rapha=C3=ABl?= Fournier-S'niehotta <raphael@raphaelfournier.net>,\r
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+Subject: Re: Avoiding the "huge INBOX of death"\r
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+Rapha=C3=ABl Fournier-S'niehotta <raphael@raphaelfournier.net> writes:\r
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+> Hello fellow notmuchers,\r
+>\r
+> I am a longtime "classic" mutt user, willing to switch to a notmuch-based\r
+> solution (probably neomutt). However, as far as I understand, I will have=\r
+ to\r
+> deal with a "huge INBOX of death", as put by Anarcat in a recent blog pos=\r
+t [1],\r
+> that when all emails remain in a single maildir, which may the become very\r
+> large.=20\r
+>\r
+\r
+TBH, I don't understand what specific problem anarcat is having, it\r
+sounds like a workflow issue.  I currently have 1074 messages tagged\r
+inbox, out of about 450K messages.\r
+\r
+Notmuch doesn't care how you organize your mail files on disk, as long\r
+as they are one message per file, and one tree of messages. So feel free\r
+to store them e.g. by date using procmail if you are worried about\r
+performance, or in some other set of folders with semantic=20\r
+\r
+For performance I'd also say measure before you optimize. I currently\r
+have about 77K messages in one of my maildirs, with no noticable\r
+performance hit.  Of course you want e.g. directory indexing on ext3,\r
+but that is default on anything recent.\r
+\r
+> Thus, I think I need to have my emails sorted into maildir folders accord=\r
+ing to\r
+> the notmuch tags. Namely, emails with the "inbox" tag should stay in the =\r
+INBOX\r
+> maildir, those with "archive" should be moved to Archives (all synchroniz=\r
+ed with\r
+> the server). As a bonus, it would be great to have a few more features, l=\r
+ike\r
+> "mails in Archives older than 6 months are moved to Archives/<year>" (kept\r
+> locally and not stored on the server).\r
+\r
+Generally, you should search directly by folder, rather than trying to\r
+sync tags and folders.\r
+\r
+I'm not familiar with afew as a user.\r
+\r
+d\r
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