From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tim Cross Subject: Re: exported contacts problem Date: Sat, 03 Aug 2019 08:07:21 +1000 Message-ID: <875znfte5i.fsf@gmail.com> References: <874l2zpase.fsf@gmail.com> <877e7vtg3p.fsf@gmail.com> <20190802213917.GA17561@protected.rcdrun.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:54487) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.86_2) (envelope-from ) id 1htfhw-0004N2-Bp for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:07:29 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htfhv-0000Xt-A3 for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:07:28 -0400 Received: from mail-pg1-x52e.google.com ([2607:f8b0:4864:20::52e]:46710) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1htfhv-0000XX-3K for emacs-orgmode@gnu.org; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 18:07:27 -0400 Received: by mail-pg1-x52e.google.com with SMTP id k189so17661845pgk.13 for ; Fri, 02 Aug 2019 15:07:26 -0700 (PDT) In-reply-to: <20190802213917.GA17561@protected.rcdrun.com> List-Id: "General discussions about Org-mode." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-orgmode-bounces+geo-emacs-orgmode=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: "Emacs-orgmode" To: Jean Louis Cc: Jude DaShiell , emacs-orgmode@gnu.org 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 writes: > * Tim Cross [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