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

[Gregory Heytings]

> > I'm just trying to explain why mbox files are incompatible with the way 
> > most people deal with their mails nowadays.
>
> The situation looks symmetrical to me.
>
> I fear that maildirs are incompatible with the way I use email.
>
> I really am intrerested in the answers to the questions I asked about 
> slownesses that might -- or might not -- be a problem for use of 
> maildirs.  If they are not in fact a problem, I'd like to know that.

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.