[25944] in SIPB bug reports
Re: mutt crashes on large mailboxes
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Theodore Tso)
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2006 21:19:33 -0400
From: Theodore Tso <tytso@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
Cc: bug-sipb@mit.edu
Subject: Re: mutt crashes on large mailboxes
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On Wed, Oct 25, 2006 at 06:32:38PM -0400, John Hawkinson wrote:
> So, mutt crashes when I try to delete more than ~1000 messages from
> my spamscreen folder. Since it has about 94,000 messages in it right now,
> that's pretty unmanageable.
Crash or hang? If I try to delete more than ~120 messages from my
spamscreen folder over IMAP from my home network, mutt will hang.
This has been true for multiple versions of mutt for the past couple
of years, but I'm currently using mutt 1.5.12 from Ubuntu Edgy.
I've never problems delete 1000 messages using the mbsync program, so
it seems likely to be client bug in mutt, although I don't have a
problem deleting 120+ messages from a Courier IMAP server hosted on
thunk.org. I've never had time to dig into it, but perhaps it's
related to what you're seeing?
The way I deal with my spamscreen folder is I always make sure I use
the '$' command after deleting between 100-120 messages, and this
tends to keep mutt from hanging.
- Ted
