On Tue, Dec 09, 2003, Mary Gardiner wrote: > But the real question is: are there any workarounds for mutt's IMAP > support. I don't care about folder searching, speedy folder changes or > anything like that, but fast reads and writes over a local connection > is something I'd rather like.
OK, a partial solution. Change the mailcheck and timeout variables to something like the following: set mailcheck = 90 set timeout = 15 This means that mutt only scans all your mailboxes (as defined by the "mailboxes" variable, I have rather a lot) for new mail every 90 seconds, rather than every 5. The timeout variable is less important, this means that it checks for new mail in the current folder every 15 seconds (rather than every 600). The change to mailcheck makes time taken opening messages, closing messages and jumping between messages fall to whatever the latency of the connection is (since it's a local connection for me, it's very fast). mutt still takes a while to open any given mailbox, but this is at least acceptable if not wonderful. Thanks to http://mutt.sourceforge.net/imap/ -Mary -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
