Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 years of my life on

Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by taken11 on Friday October 07, 2011 @04:06PM (#3085636)

... is really slow for opening large mailboxes, are you using some trick to make it faster? mutt alone just scans all mails before displaying anything. thats not a good idea for 100k+ emails

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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by jamespo on Friday October 07, 2011 @05:52PM (#3086150)

there's the mutt header_cache directive which can help

although if you have 100k+ emails in a folder, particularly a non-archive folder I'd suggest you're doing it wrong

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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by pyre on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:38PM (#3086724)

header_cache only works with Maildir and IMAP. If he's using Maildir for a mailbox w/ 100k+ emails, then he may start running into filesystem limitations.

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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by a3_nm on Friday October 07, 2011 @09:04PM (#3086673)

notmuch

However, you must be willing to integrate it with other tools (a frontend, something like fetchmail, and something like procmail, etc.).

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Re:Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I spent 2 ... by feydr on Saturday October 08, 2011 @01:30AM (#3087223)

my particular recipe involves fetchmail, procmail, msmtp, vim, aspell, ical, etc..

but yes, if you are stuffing +100k emails into one folder -- that is completely insane -- that's why you use procmail to sort your email into different folders as it arrives; I subscribe to a LOT of email lists and ctrl-D delivers a lot of magic when I don't want to or have the time to sort through a bunch of crap but

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