On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 10:19:59AM -0600, Kyle Wheeler wrote: > On Wednesday, November 11 at 11:25 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > > My mailboxes are on my hd. > > Huh. Okay. How many is mutt checking on?
Hard to say as they go by pretty fast but there are a total of 37 in
~./mail. That includes 14 "saved-*", backup, spam, outbox, etc. Don't
know if mutt checks these. Can't see why it should.
> > Still can't figure out why mutt would insist on polling mailboxes
> > for keystrokes unrelated to any mailbox (s, t, *, ?, etc)
>
> That's easy to explain: because you told it to. Here's the way it
> works: you told mutt (well, it's set this way by default, but...) via
> $mail_check that you want ALL of your mailboxes to be checked every 5
.............snip............
> Well, given mutt's event-driven structure, checking for mail is
> inherently intermittent. But I think the intermittent delays probably
> also have something to do with the number of mailboxes you have mutt
> checking, and the characteristics of your hard drive (i.e. does
> checking all of them involve spinning up the disk? Searching through
> large unhashed directories? etc.).
That makes sense...even to me. What I still don't understand is why mutt
displays this behavior and when I close it for a few hours/days then use
it the next time, the problem doesn't appear at all. One more thing.
When mutt polls after a keystroke, it does it at *every* keystroke 1-2
seconds apart. Well within the polling interval. Something seems
inconsistent.
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Bob Holtzman
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