Words by Timo Sirainen [Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:40:01PM +0200]: > On Tue, 2008-12-16 at 14:26 +0000, Jose Celestino wrote: > > Words by Timo Sirainen [Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 08:17:11AM +0200]: > > > On Mon, 2008-12-15 at 12:45 -0500, Stewart Dean wrote: > > > > Is there a simple robust IMAP client to replace Pine (which I *think* > > > > is > > > > no longer supported)? GUI or TTY session? > > > > > > Pine and Alpine are about the only clients (besides webmails) that can > > > open a mailbox without downloading every single message's headers at > > > startup. So they're probably the only clients where you can quickly open > > > a huge mailbox and start deleting messages. I wish there were more > > > clients that worked like that. > > > > > > > Mutt also has header caching. Just compile it with > > > > --enable-hcache Enable header caching > > But it still downloads all the mails at some point, right? So if there > are 100k new messages, it downloads their headers. Whereas Pine would > only download them as necessary (one or two pagefuls at a time). >
Absolutely right. It will download them *all* at startup if not in cache, not page by page. -- Jose Celestino | http://japc.uncovering.org/files/japc-pgpkey.asc ---------------------------------------------------------------- "One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh." -- Robert A. Heinlein