Re: RFC: enable support for smtp/pop/imap by default

[Andreas Krennmair <ak@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

* Will Fiveash <will.fiveash@xxxxxxxxxx> [2010-04-14 18:40]:
> Two of the several reasons I use mutt are its small memory/cpu footprint
> and its reliability.  Adding more code by default runs contrary to those
> aspects of mutt that I appreciate.

Have you measured memory footprint? I did:

plain mutt 1.5.20 with --disable-pop --disable-imap --disable-smtp:

$ size mutt
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 612370   28440    9664  650474   9ecea mutt

$ ps -eo rss,vsize,args | grep mutt
 2968  22300 ./mutt

$ ./mutt -v | grep USE_POP
-USE_POP  -USE_IMAP  -USE_SMTP  


plain mutt 1.5.20 with --enable-pop --enable-imap --enable-smtp:

$ size mutt
   text    data     bss     dec     hex filename
 700254   29896    9856  740006   b4aa6 mutt

$ ps -eo rss,vsize,args | grep mutt
 2992  22388 ./mutt

$ ./mutt -v | grep USE_POP
+USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  +USE_SMTP  


Now we have a base for discussion about increased omemory footprint when
pop/imap/smtp are enabled.

Regards,
Andreas
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