[geeks] Large Mail files

Joshua D Boyd jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu
Sun Oct 13 23:32:28 CDT 2002


On Sun, Oct 13, 2002 at 07:06:48PM -0700, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> --- Joshua D Boyd <jdboyd at cs.millersville.edu> wrote:
> > I have a 130some meg mail file.  When I try to open it in mutt on a
> > machine with 64megs of ram, mutt works for awhile, gets to something
> > like 30 some thousand messages then dies. 
> 
> OK
>  
> > Pine on the other hand, just seems to go off to never never land
> 
> OK
> 
> Is there a question around here, or are you just bragging ;^)

No, not meaning to brag.  I keep archives of mail over the years, and
really did want to search the file for a particular message.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd



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