Bug#443259: libmail-box-perl: mail::box is practically unusable on large folders

[Celejar]

On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:54:56 +0200
gregor herrmann <gregor+debian at comodo.priv.at> wrote:

> On Wed, 26 Sep 2007 01:42:46 -0400, Celejar wrote:
> 
> > > I've passed your report on the author of the module who has closed
> > > the bug upstream but provided some hints.
> > > Please take a look at
> > > http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=29580 and see if this
> > > helps.
> > Both of Mark's suggestions work;  using $obj->destruct seems to be much
> > better than periodically opening and closing the folder, at least in my
> > situation, since a) it's much faster, since there's a large penalty in
> > opening a large folder, b) it uses even less memory and c) it's less
> > kludgy.
> 
> Great, so we can close this bug.

Perhaps the documentation should include a warning about this and a
pointer to the workarounds?

> Thanks for trying and reporting back!

Thank you!

> Cheers,
> gregor

Celejar
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