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On Jo, 08 iul 21, 04:09:48, Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside wrote:
> On Jo, 08 iul 21, 09:24:32, didier gaumet wrote:
> 
> > By default Thunderbird manages an mbox file for each folder you
> > creates, which contains all the messages of the folder. So potentially
> > these mbox files can be big and their processing can be slow. 
> > 
> > There are others forms of messages storage which create a file per
> > message: Maildir, MH, etc..
> > 
> Okay, but I have doubt about any type of benefits relating to having
> either more file or a different storage format.
> This won't help much when we talk about problem searching thru my mail
> and resources hungry (for Thunderbird) actions.

Except for the network interface the storage is the slowest component in 
a typical computer and the mbox format is notoriously difficult to 
change.

The "delete 100 messages on my mailing list inbox" you mentioned is 
barely noticeable with (neo)mutt using Maildir (probably with MH as 
well).

Even doing this over IMAP could be faster because the server does the 
actual work.

(in any case, enabling the header cache is a must)

If you care about a (big) local searchable archive you might want to 
look at neomutt and it's notmuch integration.

Any folder with more than a few hundred messages should probably be 
converted to Maildir, unless it's used as an archive and rarely (if 
ever) changed. (neo)mutt can deal with different formats per folder.

They do however require more configuration / customization out of the 
box. The (neo)muttrc manpage is very useful and there is plenty of other 
documentation on the web to get you started.

Kind regards,
Andrei
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Mail Reader Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-08 05:50 +0200
  Re: Mail Reader john doe <johndoe65534@mail.com> - 2021-07-08 08:50 +0200
    Re: Mail Reader Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-08 10:20 +0200
      Re: Mail Reader Curt <curty@free.fr> - 2021-07-08 14:30 +0200
        Re: Mail Reader <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-08 14:40 +0200
          Re: Mail Reader Gene Heskett <gheskett@shentel.net> - 2021-07-08 16:00 +0200
            Re: Mail Reader Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-09 00:10 +0200
              Re: Mail Reader John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-07-09 01:40 +0200
                Re: Mail Reader Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-09 09:00 +0200
                Re: Mail Reader John Hasler <john@sugarbit.com> - 2021-07-09 19:30 +0200
        Re: Mail Reader Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 16:10 +0200
          Re: Mail Reader Dan Ritter <dsr@randomstring.org> - 2021-07-09 01:40 +0200
            Re: Mail Reader Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-09 09:20 +0200
              Re: Mail Reader Teemu Likonen <tlikonen@iki.fi> - 2021-07-09 12:30 +0200
                Re: Mail Reader Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-07-09 23:10 +0200
  Re: Mail Reader "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-08 09:20 +0200
  Re: Mail Reader didier gaumet <didier.gaumet@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 09:30 +0200
    Re: Mail Reader Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-08 10:20 +0200
      Re: Mail Reader Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 10:50 +0200
        Re: Mail Reader <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-08 11:00 +0200
          Re: Mail Reader Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 12:10 +0200
            Re: Mail Reader <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-08 13:30 +0200
  Re: Mail Reader <tomas@tuxteam.de> - 2021-07-08 10:00 +0200
  Re: Mail Reader (updated) Polyna-Maude Racicot-Summerside <debian@polynamaude.com> - 2021-07-08 10:20 +0200
    Re: Mail Reader (updated) Andrei POPESCU <andreimpopescu@gmail.com> - 2021-07-08 11:30 +0200
    Re: Mail Reader (updated) Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-07-08 11:30 +0200
      Re: Mail Reader (updated) "Andrew M.A. Cater" <amacater@einval.com> - 2021-07-08 14:30 +0200
        Re: Mail Reader (updated) Francesco Florian <francesco.florian@gmx.com> - 2021-07-08 16:30 +0200
    Re: Mail Reader (updated) Hans <hans.ullrich@loop.de> - 2021-07-08 13:30 +0200

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