From: Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com>
To: Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support>
Cc: Jude DaShiell <jdashiel@panix.com>, emacs-orgmode@gnu.org
Subject: Re: exported contacts problem
Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 08:07:21 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <875znfte5i.fsf@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190802213917.GA17561@protected.rcdrun.com>
Maybe, but those are unusually high maildir numbers IMO. I have approx
8Gb of email messages, but only have a handful of maildirs - this is
primarily why I prefer mu4e and org as a powerful mail workflow.
I use to use the old model of sorting email into many different folders,
but it was just too time consuming. My inbox was always large and I
spent hours each week just sorting and refiling my messages.
Now I just have a couple of maildirs for each account - inbox, archived,
sent, draft and thats it. For messages I need to track, I create an
org-todo with a mu4e link and if I need to find an old message, mu
search works fine.
Now my inbox has approx 20 messages and I spend no time sorting and
refiling messages.
Mutt is OK, but does not integrate well with emacs. I live in emacs, so
I want my mail reader there as well.
Jean Louis <bugs@gnu.support> writes:
> * Tim Cross <theophilusx@gmail.com> [2019-08-02 23:26]:
>> I tried gnus some time ago and use to use it when I read
>> newsgroups. While I find it to be an extremely powerful and capable
>> package, I never got comfortable with using it for mail. I once used VM
>> and then mew, but now mu4e, which I think is fantastic. Part of what I
>> like about it is the nice workflow I have with org-mode.
>
> mu4e is good maybe for small usage, it does not scale up[1]. With
> 47783 maildir folders it cannot cope. It is unusable.
>
> A concept to read maildirs from a database is not good one. Database
> index is for searching. Maildirs shall be read directly based upon the
> specification.
>
> Package `maildir' is much faster to read maildirs.
>
> A search with `mu' can symlink found emails into specific folder and
> `maildir' package can quickly read such folder. That is about the `mu'
> search.
>
> Nothing beats `mutt'[2] for reading emails.
>
> Jean
>
> Footnotes:
> [1] https://github.com/djcb/mu/issues/1440
> [2] https://www.mutt.org
--
Tim Cross
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-08-02 22:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-08-02 15:47 exported contacts problem Jude DaShiell
2019-08-02 16:00 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 16:02 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 16:06 ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-02 21:09 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-02 21:34 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 0:26 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-03 10:33 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 15:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-03 16:32 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 17:48 ` Neil Jerram
2019-08-03 18:25 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-03 21:32 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-03 22:12 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-04 1:28 ` Tim Cross
2019-08-13 22:24 ` David Masterson
2019-08-14 20:38 ` Eric Abrahamsen
2019-08-16 0:07 ` David Masterson
2019-08-03 10:48 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 22:19 ` John Kitchin
2019-08-02 20:33 ` Tim Cross
2019-08-02 20:57 ` Jude DaShiell
2019-08-02 21:25 ` Tim Cross
2019-08-02 21:39 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 22:07 ` Tim Cross [this message]
2019-08-03 8:25 ` Jean Louis
2019-08-02 21:00 ` Jean Louis
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