[MlMt] What takes time at startup?

[Comic Sans]

Hi Philip

On 8 Feb 2016, at 10:49, Philip Paeps wrote:

>> I still have all my email messages since 2002 but keep only a 
>> relevant (and therefore *very small* and *constantly fresh*) subset 
>> in my email app of choice (currently MailMate) and all the rest in 
>> archives (external to the email app and servers and searchable via 
>> Finder and/or an email archive app).
>
> My archives go back to the mid-nineties.  Since mail (generally) 
> compresses well and (server) disk space kept getting cheaper, I 
> decided a very long time ago that it's cheaper to keep everything than 
> to regularly evaluate what's relevant.  When laptop disks were still 
> expensive and connectivity less ubiquitous, I used a selective 
> imapsync to only download my most active mailboxes.  It was 
> error-prone and painful to maintain.

Just interested, with mail base so large, have you ever 
considered/evaluated something like 
[MailSteward](http://www.mailsteward.com/) or similar?

Cheers
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