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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
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