great! problem solved. thanks!
David Champion <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Subject: Re: too many messages saturates slow link
>
> On 2001.03.30, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
> "Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Carlos Puchol proclaimed on mutt-users that:
> >
> > > Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%)
> >
> > > this saturates my modem line for a little while.
> >
> > > is there some way to turn it
> > > off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming
> > > it is not printed at every message)?
> >
> > That's because mutt has to read the contents of your mbox format mailbox.
> > Switch to (say) maildir. Much faster (and better, if you handle large amounts
> > of mail).
> I get a lot of mail, and don't need to use maildir for performance
> reasons. Mbox works fine. Changing to maildir won't solve this
> problem, either, unless for some odd reason maildir switches out the
> progress report.
> What you probably want is to set the read_inc variable, or to make it
> larger than it is already. $read_inc indicates how often to update the
> status report line whlie reading a mailbox. For example, setting it
> to 50 makes the status line update every 50 messages, instead of with
> each message.
> - --
> -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
