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Re: mutt slow with Maildirs???



On Thu, Sep 11, 2003, Payal Rathod wrote:
> I have mutt 1.4i on a P-II machine with 256Mb RAM with ext3 fs.
> In few folders I have around 1000 mails or a few hundred more.
> I recently changed from mbox format to Maildir.
> My experience shows that to read the mail index of those folders it
> takes mutt more time (around 7-8 secs total).
> Is it true that mutt takes more time to read Maildir formats?

I recently converted to maildir from mbox and found what you did.
Large mailboxes took forever to open.  Out of frustration I switched
back to mbox.


-Ken