Re: [bug-mailutils] iterating through large mailbox: memory consumption

[Robby Villegas]

Thank you for the explanation, Alain!  This is helpful.  (I just now
saw your reply, sorry.  For some reason I didn't get a daily digest
after my posting.)

> (2) and a certain number of headers are save/allocated for fast processing so
> when you ask for the Subject/From/Date etc ... the lib will not go back to the
> disk .. to slow.

I will try your code changes to reduce the memory consumption from this.


> (1) each message is allocated a structure that will hold the offsets of the 
> message

Okay, this makes sense.

However, for some applications, I'd like to make one forward pass
through the mailbox, message by message, and I don't need to back up. 
I would get what I need from each message, then call the 'next
message' method of the iterator.  I'd be willing to accept that I lose
the caching that is normally done.

It's similar to a SAX style of parsing for XML.

I'd be happy to test our your new code whenever it is ready.

Thanks,
Robby Villegas