[Alpine-info] Saving messages is incredibly slow in 1.10

[Tom Anderson]

Hi,

I've recently moved fom Pine 4.64 to Alpine 1.10. I'm on a Debian 4.0 
machine, and 1.10 is the latest version in the Debian package system; 2.00 
hasn't arrived yet.

I see lots of little improvements, which i like, but one huge regression: 
saving messages can be incredibly slow - up to 30 seconds. This happens 
when saving messages from my inbox to any other folder, or when saving to 
sent-messages on sending. It doesn't happen every time: it seems to be 
more likely on the first use of the destination mailbox, or if it hasn't 
been used recently. When it's not super-slow, it takes a couple of seconds 
- still slower than the sub-second time Pine takes.

My mail all lives in local mbox-format files, some of which are largeish - 
my inbox is 87215037 bytes, sent-mail is 46697116, and my two main 
saved-messages files are 262658667 and 126558198.

Any idea what might be causing this, and how i might resolve it?

Thanks,
tom

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