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

[Chris Green]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 08:51:35PM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:40:58PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:
> 
> > Where does mutt keep these header caches then?
> 
> I have 'set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/'.
> 
> > I don't have set header_cache set for the good reason that mutt doesn't
> > download mail from anywhere, it's all here on my desktop.
> 
> The cache is for the headers, so that Mutt loads even local maildirs much
> faster.  So, I think even it might not be an issue, everybody might benefit
> from the cache.  Perhaps if you have small maildirs and/or a very powerful
> computer it doesn't make much a difference?
> 
I have (for example) about 6000 messages in my sentmail folder, it
loads in less than a second.  It is a *lot* faster since I installed
an NVME SSD.

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Chris Green