Re: Huge archive file sizes

[Jesper Harder]

Randy Yates <randy.yates@sonyericsson.com> writes:

> I turned on message archiving and am getting one huge (several 10's
> of megabytes) file that is requiring up to one or two minutes to
> parse when sending messages and posting articles. Is there a more
> elegant way to correct this other than saving off the archive file
> in a separate location and forcing gnus to start adding messages to
> a new file?

Are you using nnfolder for the archive?  nnfolder is a pretty bad
choice for large archives because parsing a huge nnfolder file takes
a long time as you've noticed.

Try nnml instead which is much better.

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Jesper Harder                                <http://purl.org/harder/>