Faster message body searching

Fri Aug 20 21:16:32 UTC 2021

On Sat, Aug 21, 2021 at 01:49:27AM +0530, Chinmaya Nagpal wrote:
>Is there any way to make it faster to do ~b limits in maildir mailboxes?

$thorough_search, set by default, decodes each message before searching 
through it.  You most likely want to do this, but it does slow the 
searching down.

Each message is decoded to a temp file.  You might see some speedup by 
setting $tmpdir to memory, e.g. "/dev/shm", during the search.

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Kevin J. McCarthy
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