Re: handling very large mailboxes
You mail admins take things too personally. ;)
I said something *more* reasonable because, as I mentioned earlier, I
was turning knobs and pushing buttons to figure out what may have been
slowing everything down.
75 is not the value I expect to use on a daily basis. I'm simply
troubleshooting to determine what may ultimately be causing an
overally slowness in my situation.
I recommend you crack open a beer and relax. ;)
-j
On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-mutt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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> On Sunday, May 31 at 11:02 AM, quoth James:
>> 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.
>
> Again - for obvious reasons.
>
>> Setting it to a more reasonable value (75 seconds) improves the
>> situation a bit.
>
> You have a very strange idea of what is "reasonable". Given that other
> mail programs, like thunderbird, cannot check mail any more frequently
> than once per minute (that's their minimum), and the default value is
> usually 5every 5 minutes, what makes you think that 75 seconds is
> "reasonable"? Speaking as a man who runs a mail server for lots of
> other people, 75 seconds is very unreasonable, and is approaching
> absurd.
>
> If you really really MUST HAVE MAIL THIS INSTANT, I highly recommend
> using IMAP's IDLE feature. You simple add "set imap_idle" to your
> muttrc. That way your IMAP server will NOTIFY you when mail comes in,
> rather than having you ping it every time you blink.
>
> ~Kyle
> - --
> Faith... must be enforced by reason. [...] When faith becomes blind it
> dies.
> -- Ghandi
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