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Re: Header caching not working



On Saturday, 13 June 2009 at 19:46, John Magolske wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I'm running Mutt on Debian unstable and have not been able to get
> header caching to work. I've created a directory "mutt-headercache"
> in $HOME:
> 
> % ls -ld ~/mutt-headercache
> drwxrwxr-x 2 me me 4096 2009-03-21 22:19 /home/me/mutt-headercache/
> 
> and put this in my ~/.muttrc:
> 
>     set header_cache = ~/mutt-headercache/
>     set header_cache_pagesize = '32000'
> 
> ":set ?header_cache" returns "header_cache=~/mutt-headercache/"
> 
> But this directory remains completely empty at all times. 
> 
> I'm using pop3, mbox & ext3.
> 
> TIA for any suggestions on how to get this working,

Mutt doesn't cache headers for mbox mailboxes. For pop3 it should if
and only if you're using pop:// access. Downloading pop into a local
mbox with pop_host and fetch-mail means you're using mbox to read your
mail and won't need header caching.