Re: How properly import mailboxes from Mozilla Mail?
- From: Emmanuel <e allaud wanadoo fr>
- To: mpiktas <mpiktas delfi lt>
- Cc: balsa-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: How properly import mailboxes from Mozilla Mail?
- Date: Thu, 6 Feb 2003 11:17:21 -0400
Le 2003.02.06 10:37, mpiktas a écrit :
> Hi,
>
> I'm thinking of using Balsa instead of Mozilla Mail. One thing is
> holding me back though. How properly import my mailboxes from Mozilla
> Mail? Just copying them seems to do the trick, but then read
> messages appear as unread again. I tried to compact the folder in
> Mozilla Mail, but this did not help.
>
> This is only the minor anoyance, and I can live with that. The most
> anoying thing, that Balsa is really slow opening large imported
> mailboxes. I tried to open mailbox with more than 5000 letters and it
> took Balsa 27 seconds to do that and it eats up all processor time.
> If I choose Flat Index from menu Balsa again uses 100% of processor,
> and I do not wait till it finishes, because everything takes more
> than 3 minutes and I suspect then that Balsa freezes. The only way to
> stop this operation is to use killall balsa.
>
> Is this Balsa issue, or is this Mozilla Mail creating bad mailboxes?
>
To be honest, Balsa is not good at opening big mailboxes, because it
loads the whole mbox in memory.
What do you mean by "if I choose flat index" : you have opened a
mailbox, it is threaded, and then you click on Flat index in the view
menu?
Bye
Manu
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