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mutt 1.5.9i: header_cache: Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't...



Hi there,

I use mutt 1.5.9i and enabled header caching during the build to access my
maildir folders as fast as possible. Then I configured the header_cache
parameter like this:

set header_cache="~/.tmp/mutt-header-cache"

This all went very well and at the time I enabled this parameter accessing my
folders sped up a lot. But then one day it was back to slow again and I
noticed the mutt-header-cache db had been gone without me doing anything.

Just until yesterday no header cache db would be created. I tried to point
$header_cache to a dir and to a file, but that wouldn't change anything
either.

Today I noticed that there were two header chache files both dating from
yesterday. I've been receiving, reading and sending mail all day long today,
so if mutt would use the db I guess the date of the dbs should have todays
date.

Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas?

Thanks,

p@rick

P.S.

Here's the output from "mutt -v" to show that mutt has USE_HCACHE enabled:

$ mutt -v
Mutt 1.5.9i (2005-03-13)
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 Michael R. Elkins and others.
Mutt comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY; for details type `mutt -vv'.
Mutt is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it
under certain conditions; type `mutt -vv' for details.

System: Linux 2.6.11-1.7_FC3 (i686) [using ncurses 5.4] [using libidn 0.5.6 
(compiled with 0.5.6)]
Compile options:
-DOMAIN
-DEBUG
-HOMESPOOL  +USE_SETGID  +USE_DOTLOCK  +DL_STANDALONE
+USE_FCNTL  -USE_FLOCK   -USE_INODESORT
-USE_POP  +USE_IMAP  -USE_GSS  -USE_SSL  -USE_GNUTLS  +USE_SASL  +USE_SASL2
+HAVE_REGCOMP  -USE_GNU_REGEX
+HAVE_COLOR  +HAVE_START_COLOR  +HAVE_TYPEAHEAD  +HAVE_BKGDSET
+HAVE_CURS_SET  +HAVE_META  +HAVE_RESIZETERM
+CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_PGP  +CRYPT_BACKEND_CLASSIC_SMIME  -CRYPT_BACKEND_GPGME  
-BUFFY_SIZE -EXACT_ADDRESS  -SUN_ATTACHMENT
+ENABLE_NLS  -LOCALES_HACK  +HAVE_WC_FUNCS  +HAVE_LANGINFO_CODESET  
+HAVE_LANGINFO_YESEXPR
+HAVE_ICONV  -ICONV_NONTRANS  +HAVE_LIBIDN  +HAVE_GETSID  +HAVE_GETADDRINFO  
+USE_HCACHE
ISPELL="/usr/bin/ispell"
SENDMAIL="/usr/sbin/sendmail"
MAILPATH="/var/mail"
PKGDATADIR="/usr/local/share/mutt"
SYSCONFDIR="/usr/local/etc"
EXECSHELL=


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