Deleting old maildir messages, is what I'm doing OK?

[Matthias Beyer]

On 15-02-2021 16:38:43, Chris Green wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:26:09PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> > On 15-02-2021 16:21:11, Chris Green wrote:
> > > I currently have the following two lines in my crontab to delete old
> > > mails in my junk catching directories
> > 
> > I mean, how many tens of GB of mail do you get each year so that
> > it is necessary to delete stuff?
> > 
> Zillions of small files can make searching and stuff slow too.

May I suggest something like notmuch [0] for your mail setup?

My maildir is about 75k messages right now and searching is in the range of
less than a second.
Maybe you just need the right tool? ;-)

[0] notmuchmail.org

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