On Sunday 26 Jan 2014 13:07:08 Peter Davis wrote: > On Sun, Jan 26, 2014 at 08:04:57AM -0500, Peter Davis wrote: > > I'm running mutt 5.22 on a MacBook, with header caching built in. I'm > > using this to read mail via IMAP. I have set up header cache > > directories, and they all appear to be getting used. Mutt created > > directories for all my folders. > > > > Yet frequently when I visit a mailbox, I get 30 seconds or a minute of > > "Fetching message headers ..." displayed at the bottom. This is > > typically when visiting large folders, even though there may be only one > > or two new messages. > > > > Am I missing something? Isn't the point of header caching to make opening > > the folder nearly instantaneous? > > Sorry. It's mutt 1.5.21 on this machine.
I tried all kinds of caching to make reading imap (on a remote mail server) acceptable and have failed to find a solution for really large mail folders that have tens of thousands of messages. Smaller imap folders are accessed quickly within a couple of seconds or so, but larger folders have always been a problem here, compared say to Kmail or T'bird. I don't know if it is down to caching architecture differences between various mail clients or not yet having tried some configuration that works for mutt, so I would be interested to see if you come across a solution. -- Regards, Mick
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