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

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 05:58:25PM +0100, Matthias Beyer wrote:
> 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? ;-)
> 
I use mairix and it works fast and well.


Does no one else ever delete mail messges? :-)

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Chris Green