Re: handling very large mailboxes
Bill,
What do you have your $mail_check set to?
If I set it to something rather low (15), mutt becomes extremely slow.
-j
2009/5/31 James <jtp@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Hum.
>
> Maybe my IMAP server is kinda slow then?
>
> I could try tying mutt to my Gmail account to see what happens.
>
> Here's what I have in my .muttrc file (for caching):
>
> set header_cache="~/.mutt/cache/headers"
> set message_cachedir="~/.mutt/cache/messages"
>
> There seem to be files in there, so I imagine that the caching is
> working correctly.
>
> I just ran a tcpdump and worked on mutt for a bit and here's what I'm
> noticing:
>
> - loading a mailbox the first time around takes a bit of time and
> results in some reasonable level of traffic to / from the mail server
> - once a mailbox is loaded, the index for that mailbox seems to work smoothly
> - loading a single message in that mailbox then takes a few seconds (~5?)
>
> I haven't compared to see what happens when I turn off caching, though.
>
> Bill, are you saying that after the initial 30 second process for your
> Gmail, everything loads up instantly (specific email messages, etc.)
> afterwards?
>
> -j
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:32 AM, bill lam <cbill.lam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote:
>>> By large I'm talking about, uhhh, ~7000 emails. More or less.
>>
>> My imap account in gmail have over 30000 message, and also a local
>> maildir mailbox for rss having over 80000 message. They need about 10
>> to 30 seconds to initial cache checking.
>>
>> FYI
>>
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