Re: too many messages saturates slow link
great! problem solved. thanks! David Champion [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Subject: Re: too many messages saturates slow link On 2001.03.30, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Suresh Ramasubramanian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos Puchol proclaimed on mutt-users that: Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%) this saturates my modem line for a little while. is there some way to turn it off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming it is not printed at every message)? That's because mutt has to read the contents of your mbox format mailbox. Switch to (say) maildir. Much faster (and better, if you handle large amounts of mail). I get a lot of mail, and don't need to use maildir for performance reasons. Mbox works fine. Changing to maildir won't solve this problem, either, unless for some odd reason maildir switches out the progress report. What you probably want is to set the read_inc variable, or to make it larger than it is already. $read_inc indicates how often to update the status report line whlie reading a mailbox. For example, setting it to 50 makes the status line update every 50 messages, instead of with each message. - -- -D. [EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
too many messages saturates slow link
hi, when i connect via a slow link to my box, i get this when i type mutt: Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%) this saturates my modem line for a little while. because (it seems) there is a lot of redraws printing the message count (one line per message?). is there some way to turn it off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming it is not printed at every message)? thanks, -c
Re: too many messages saturates slow link
Carlos Puchol proclaimed on mutt-users that: Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%) this saturates my modem line for a little while. is there some way to turn it off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming it is not printed at every message)? That's because mutt has to read the contents of your mbox format mailbox. Switch to (say) maildir. Much faster (and better, if you handle large amounts of mail). You'd have to suggest this to your provider, if you dont run your own server. -s (or pop the mails down with fetchmail and run maildir locally) -- Suresh Ramasubramanian + Wallopus Malletus Indigenensis mallet @ cluestick.org + Lumber Cartel of India, tinlcI EMail Sturmbannfuhrer, Lower Middle Class Unix Sysadmin
Re: too many messages saturates slow link
On 2001.03.30, in [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Suresh Ramasubramanian" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Carlos Puchol proclaimed on mutt-users that: Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%) this saturates my modem line for a little while. is there some way to turn it off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming it is not printed at every message)? That's because mutt has to read the contents of your mbox format mailbox. Switch to (say) maildir. Much faster (and better, if you handle large amounts of mail). I get a lot of mail, and don't need to use maildir for performance reasons. Mbox works fine. Changing to maildir won't solve this problem, either, unless for some odd reason maildir switches out the progress report. What you probably want is to set the read_inc variable, or to make it larger than it is already. $read_inc indicates how often to update the status report line whlie reading a mailbox. For example, setting it to 50 makes the status line update every 50 messages, instead of with each message. -- -D.[EMAIL PROTECTED]NSITUniversity of Chicago
Re: too many messages saturates slow link
Carlos Puchol wrote: this saturates my modem line for a little while. because (it seems) there is a lot of redraws printing the message count (one line per message?). is there some way to turn it off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming it is not printed at every message)? Have you tried setting $read_inc and $write_inc to greater values? Perhaps that would help. -- Linux: The Choice of the GNU Generation
