Re: How properly import mailboxes from Mozilla Mail?

[Steffen Klemer <masterofheap gmx net>]

Am 2003.02.06 15:37 schrieb(en) mpiktas:
> 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?
> 

The problem is Balsa.
Mozilla creates a so called index to remember all the mailbox-content much 
quicker.
Balsa doesn't use such a trick.
If you would delete this index, Mozilla would take the first time creating 
a new one as long as Balsa takes every time it openes it.

The 3 minute-time with the flat-index is surely a bug, could plz. give 
some more information on that, or file a bug-report on bugzilla?

cu
/Steffen

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