[MlMt] MailMate speed

[Erik Mueller-Harder]

About an hour ago, Benny Kjær Nielsen wrote (with the subject 
“Offline directories”:

> If you have 100K messages then it should be ok (I only have ~30K 
> messages myself). I think the most I have been told to work in 
> MailMate is 400K messages, but I believe that requires both a fast 
> machine and plenty of memory.

I can’t speak to 400K messages, but if you’re interested in data 
points, I can attest to 90K messages being perfectly workable on a 
three-year-old iMac with 8GB RAM.

I now have 96K messages on a one-year-old MacBook Pro with 16GB RAM:  
there’s certainly a bit of a start-up delay (~8 seconds) when I first 
launch MailMate; other than searching, however, nothing takes any time 
at all.

In terms of searching, I can’t report any surprises:  common sense 
predicts that searching for addresses and subjects will be fast (it is) 
and that searching for body text will be slower (it is).  A few things 
I’ve discovered have helped save some time:

1.  For complex searches, start by narrowing your search quickly with 
address, date, and/or subject searching; then add body-text searching if 
need be.

2.  *Paste* terms into the search criteria fields rather than *typing* 
them in.  This helps in all fields, but *especially* in the body-text 
search field.  For example, typing `foobar` in character by character 
gives me final results in just under six seconds; but pasting `barfoo` 
in (instead of `foobar`, to minimizing the effects of caching on the 
results) gives me final results in less than one second.

HTH,

— Erik

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