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List:       kde-devel
Subject:    Re: too much memory for kmail
From:       Ferdinand Gassauer <gassauer () kde ! org>
Date:       2001-05-01 11:20:58
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On Tuesday 01 May 2001 12:10, Stephan Kulow wrote:
> On Tuesday, 1. May 2001 07:09, Pupeno wrote:
> > On Monday 30 April 2001 19:37, Rik Hemsley wrote:
> > > #if Stephan Kulow
> > >
> > > > That could work if there would be no dynamic sorting and threading.
> > > > With it you need a more advanced architecture.
> > >
> > > Lots of brain power needed to figure out how to do this with threading,
> > > certainly. I've been putting it off until I get an upgrade.
> >
> > I don't know much about this, this is a simple and maybe stupid idea...
> > why don't you store the threaded folders threaded... on disk... I think
> > it'll have a slow down on switching from threaded to non-threaded (very
> > low in big folders), but this is not an action that's done very often
> > (maybe some people change very often, it depends in the way you work with
> > mail, I think that people should be able to chose what to optimize), and
> > writing a recently recived e-mail will be slow, but not too much (I think
> > that if this slow down is a problem, you cannot read that amount of
> > mail). Is this aplicable ?
>
> And if you get mail you want to have them in the right thread. For this you
> need of course the whole thread. So basicly _every_ action you're doing is
> slowed down.
> The rule is simple: if you can't spare the extra 10MB you shouldn't keep
> over 2000 mails in your mail boxes
Or use a database backend to store mails :-|
>
> Greetings, Stephan

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