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Re: handling very large mailboxes



It seems a good bit of the problem I am having is related to the
$mail_check period. If I have it too low mutt becomes completely
unresponsive, regardless of what I try to do.

Setting it to a more reasonable value (75 seconds) improves the situation a bit.

I'm uncertain, however, why it takes so long for mutt to load at
first. Isn't that what the header cache is for? What exactly is mutt
doing when it first loads and takes ~20sec (on my end) to load
everything?

-j

On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:53 AM, bill lam <cbill.lam@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote:
>> Bill, are you saying that after the initial 30 second process for your
>> Gmail, everything loads up instantly (specific email messages, etc.)
>> afterwards?
>
> Since only headers are downloaded, new message take time to download
> when actually first read the message. Afterwards that message will be
> inside body cache.  When mailbox is closed by network disconnection
> then it needs initialisation again.  Apart from that, there is no
> difference from a local mailbox retrieved from pop3.  I guess this
> should be the normal scenario.
>
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