On Fri, 15 Jan 2010 08:47:10 +0200, Dirk-Jan C. Binnema <djcb.bulk@gmail.com> wrote: > I take a slighly different approach in mu: works for me, thanks Dirk. patch against HEAD is attached ( i hope. i'm new to emacs mail :D ) It takes around half an hour for my 60K mail on reiserfs, but it did take 10 minutes already on ext4. I suggest having a different approach to feed new mail in, such as: for i in (fetchmail) do notmuch new < $i done