-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Tuesday, November 10 at 11:02 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 04:36:25PM -0800, Morris, Patrick wrote: >> Mutt checks for mailbox changes frequently,
It doesn't have to. >> If you're using a remote mailbox and the network connection's being >> flaky, or it's local and your hard drive is having fits, things can >> get pretty choppy. > > Would mutt exhibit this behavior if I don't have a constant connection > to my isp's pop3 server? Correct. So, mutt has a lot of settings, most of which are set under the assumption that you're using mutt to read a local mbox. For example, the $mail_check variable is, by default, 5. What that means is that mutt will expect to check for new mail every five seconds---which is a good default if your mailbox(es) is/are just a disk-access away, but if accessing your mail requires network operations, five seconds is absurdly small. Boost that value up some (even to as little as 60 (1 minute)), and I think you'll find that mutt suddenly gets more responsive while accessing your pop3 server. ~Kyle - -- A man cannot be held responsible for what his mind does while he's asleep. -- Jean Luc Picard -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJK+sh+AAoJECuveozR/AWeI40QAITFBjx/Dd84PNmNw5YwLoVC AqLsLPhRNsv4dI4Y1XbqJ8aRpsW14gzJdVkIr9uaGCaEmDHLk5xFPGCzrvu8iqB7 X2JGWgu1cHXNspkbiX/wQEWcwhQV+DITLm9ZjJbLx24zCGiH0Cz6+lUkJOEaZZwE kbCvGBRAkbDyrTu75U2hUUDmfkBtBUaNfBIHyyAyneFLz45648WDVjDAgyzlNYPi HCI2IL3+e/tCW7cWbHYiauGKLBwgsHNgneSmU8DZbOCcyZdPJVdR4OLRXQtJ1Dze /0mtK5zcjoFDRwfO9y7kUvSlL1KuZgwt/ND1tt2gCL4oxjolNCyDzpqmW8ufeB2L ttzsYmu0bfxAuZQrC36TCW3aK3S8YpAgS+sh/YB1E/jSaPNmEjAf/QnmXEBAcHu9 GMGP9yAwFqT6ImZhbADhLnwTYJrpR/b8FrEaDaASBcoKuOvZXAtvvJHodvd6xfW1 ChFvr7I2NKelz0czoXtfOlh1yzWmIECqsXlPRl54MH8cFF+kqTBIjefkXEni9U+0 F5WAvf8AEzZxxqQVzvV3DSras7LvKVXMOVu+ImnUiGkthXlSbrkXhsXtQp6frFdZ PFqE62+opZOySJ1nvGUUXLJBAqD1wT7OiY6uK9jeS6e5BYyUqMxoen1/RpPADmop LGUjl7OUG1NaOPZhlr51 =C3XN -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----