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.