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

[Angel M Alganza]

On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 08:04:10PM +0000, Chris Green wrote:

>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.

Well, in that case it might not be such an improvement to use the header 
cache and it could even be counterproductive to write more on the SSD.

Now, I wonder if would be worth to keep the cache in a ram disk.  I 
guess it would be much faster and don't touch the disk (better for SSD).

Well... I've gone ahead and try setting my header cache like:

   set header_cache=/tmp/ama/mutt/cache/

Since I have /tmp/ on a RAM disk, that'd do it.  It's working faster (I 
don't have the luxury of a powerful box or a SSD disk, hehe) and it will 
be deleted @reboot, so I won't have to care about deleting it manually 
from time to time.  I'm keeping it at least for now, to test it further.

Cheers,
Ángel