Re: running viewmail under emacs 29.3

[Mark Diekhans]

I like my software to keep improving and evolving, even if there
are some annoyances along the way.  Emacs has being doing that
since I first started using in ~1985 :-)

VM on the other hand has not had a release in over a decade :-(

Big performance issue is that VM is not event driven, so it
locks up emacs while fetch, saving and sending messages.  This
is disruptive when most of ones work is in emacs.  This maybe
due more to mailbox size (lots of attachments) as opposed to
number of message.  I only have ~7500 messages, but the box is
1.8G.!

Julian Bradfield <jcb+vm@jcbradfield.org> writes:
> On 2024-06-10, Mark Diekhans <markd@kermodei.com> wrote:
> > Personally, I love VM, but the compatibility issues, as well as
> 
> I resolve the compatability issues by sticking to (my 2006 fork of)
> XEmacs 21.4 :) I hope that both that and my current VM will last as
> long as I need them! FSFmacs changes too much for me - I like stable
> software.
> 
> > not scaling to modern email volume, is increasingly problematic.
> 
> I'm curious about this. I'm in a fairly high-email profession, and VM
> does fine (I have far more control over my email that the poor saps
> using Outlook on the Web). (I keep about 15k messages in my "inbox",
> though I filter all the mailing lists into a private usenet news
> system.) At what level does it become a problem?
> 
>