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		jamespo on Oct 7, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I just open-sourced the e-mail client I s... there's the mutt header_cache directive which can help although if you have 100k+ emails in a folder, particularly a non-archive folder I'd suggest you're doing it wrong

pyre on Oct 8, 2011 [–]

header_cache only works with Maildir and IMAP. If he's using Maildir for a mailbox w/ 100k+ emails, then he may start running into filesystem limitations.

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