I was simply tinkering with variuos knobs and buttons in order to figure out precisely *what* was slowing everything down. :)
By setting $mail_check so low I discovered that it was likely the culprit. -j On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sunday, May 31 at 10:46 AM, quoth James: >>Bill, >> >>What do you have your $mail_check set to? >> >>If I set it to something rather low (15), mutt becomes extremely slow. > > And for obvious reasons! Is there REALLY a good reason that you'd need > to check for new mail every fifteen seconds? Depending on your mail > server, it may take a good ten seconds just to check all your > mailboxes. > > ~Kyle > - -- > As we enjoy great Advantages from the Inventions of others we should > be glad of an Opportunity to serve others by any Invention of ours, > and this we should do freely and generously. > -- Benjamin Franklin > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iQIVAwUBSiLNGiuveozR/AWeAQjU9w//czxK60Esp1VIonSjGlPZdZRypAGhhmab > cKHiPmzepv6GjVe3wAR2yWn1Wn+8uS9HQL1pabqCZFy8tfuZRzeYHGqweXYAUuX6 > MtAUoY4iF49l3V0mjnDKrMIvZ3IajYvF6CM2eCSwkX3UcltFWyrnrSgkRb6TZFjX > dZ5q33bCP/k2W8DjRJS51qISpTDHWVMlknNGhJtVJDdgrNiwQS11wrYv1fW14eLy > trWGBR+XALKPGDqcZAgj49uM/5GkNDUkRm+7G6a8rXUyTjs6Pb3PbtKAuB25ujto > bH+EUVDxAylS5EkoZ3MidgW11o5pVdulvrudu0ypHcfFxx39Vl3F9vwivinBaScp > YhMOvZjNxyHXWVvj35XE0NcdABDxt1y/q1k/bmI9NdI7XEu9pNUxO1LI1p3BEIEt > 0Rf93ScDUeWZJgNUBc10Ft8E/UCXhww0OuZVrJZpihzSIRWKCy70ve+yTRZ3bWvT > +pyuZutB+tC110lhCKBR/aGTdxQ6eBeRy4ZBSdr2l367f2drK++r+knVZaID18b3 > 6nD+SqDn92IZ6pSwYiRr5BHyaVjE+Fl334NpQCmV6NBapPKpO4hoHGBkSve3Vmnv > yww7AAoXDQ+xXFgUCNEkgaRSvrX4p/kVP2nNW/ZTxMDCJ+y6n4KAqN55ZzPcjlDd > FoWW5iV4A3E= > =jWEB > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >