Re: [PATCH v3] Allow applying filters to summary consecutively

[Richard Stallman]

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  > They are not a problem.  Mail user agents which support Maildirs index the 
  > individual mails in a database, either an (small) index of the headers or 
  > a (larger) "full text" index.  With such an index even opening a folder 
  > with tens of thousands of messages only takes a fraction of a second.

Thanks.  It seems to be a good solution as long as the mail agent
knows how to recalculate the database when the directory has changed.

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Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org)
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