[Coco] drive crash

[Richard E Crislip]

On Fri, 6 Feb 2015 07:28:17 -0500
Gene Heskett <gheskett at wdtv.com> wrote:

> Greets all;
> 
> In the process of recovering from a failing terrabytew drive on this
> box, I thought I would see about converting some huge mailfiles, that
> were how kmail did it in "the early years".
> 
> The quickest way so it seemed was to setup a 2nd Local Account that
> would process these mailfiles when one was moved to that location,
> and in the process would seperate the messages into indiviudal
> directory entries, commonly call maildir.
> 
> The mailfile for the coco list, dates back to 2002, and was just shy
> of 5 gigabytes!  It took kmail about 20 minutes to process that file,
> and when it was done I had about 82,000 unread messages in the new
> coco maildir.
> 
> And kmail is about 10x faster finding the next unread message now.
> 
> Fun & games with a new install specfically for running a simulated
> linuxcnc.
> 
> So, anyone who has tried to access my web page since last friday
> night, it should be back up now.
> 
> Cheers, Gene Heskett

Hi Gene,

What do you think of Claws Mail. I've been using it and it has served
me well. KMail cost me most of my list history 8-/. That's also the
reason I fired Ubuntu, they broke KMail with one of their upgrades.