Re: header caching

[Ken Weingold <bofh@xxxxxxx>]

On Wed, Jul 27, 2005, Will Yardley wrote:
> First of all, you could (if you wanted) probably convert the folder back
> to mbox and use it.... really it would only be your inbox or other
> incoming folders where you'd need to use Maildir.

It is my spool folder. :)  All my others under ~/Mail are still mbox.

> I think 1.5.x will be faster with Maildir, even without the header
> caching. Header-caching for IMAP is already in recent 1.5.x snapshots,
> but you still need a patch for Maildir header caching as well... in
> addition, you need to set some options and use the --enable-cache flag
> when building it.
> 
> Most of the info you need is at:
> http://wwwcip.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/~sithglan/mutt/

Thanks a lot, Will.  I'll check it out.

> something like this should do it (config-wise):
> set header_cache=~/hcache/
> set maildir_header_cache_verify=no

Would this hcache directory take up a lot of disk space?


-Ken