Re: handling very large mailboxes
I was simply tinkering with variuos knobs and buttons in order to
figure out precisely *what* was slowing everything down. :)
By setting $mail_check so low I discovered that it was likely the culprit.
-j
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:31 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sunday, May 31 at 10:46 AM, quoth James:
>>Bill,
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>>What do you have your $mail_check set to?
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>>If I set it to something rather low (15), mutt becomes extremely slow.
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> And for obvious reasons! Is there REALLY a good reason that you'd need
> to check for new mail every fifteen seconds? Depending on your mail
> server, it may take a good ten seconds just to check all your
> mailboxes.
>
> ~Kyle
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