On Tue, Oct 30, 2007 at 08:38:26AM -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
4) Direct access. No IMAP or anything fancy like that. I ssh into the system, and run mutt locally.
I've done some performance comparisons on different mail stores to see what was best. Slowest is a simple mbox-type folder. The problem is that mutt can only tell that the file changed, not what changed about it. Next best is to have the messages in a maildir folder. Startup requires a stat of everything. If it still is in cache, it is fast, otherwise it can be a bit sluggish. Fastest I've found is to keep my messages on cyrus-imapd. It's a bit of a pain to keep running. Cyrus keeps indexes of the messages (usually in memory), so reconnecting is much faster. Worst, by far, is connecting via IMAP to an overloaded Exchange server. Aside from Exchange just not really understanding IMAP, it pauses and grunts a lot. mutt does well with all of these. David -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
