On 2004-10-01 14:44:21 -0700, Brian Nelson wrote: > On Fri, Oct 01, 2004 at 02:23:53PM -0500, Douglas G. Phillips wrote: > > > It might not complain, but it'll take its sweet ass time loading > > > a large mailbox. > > It's a lot faster than some others, especially Evolution with huge mbox > > files, IMHO. If you have issues with the speed, try switching to > > maildir format -- much faster with large mailboxes. > > I already use Maildir. In general, mutt is probably the slowest mail > client I've seen, those gnus beats it in slowness in some situations.
Slow for doing what? It is quite slow to load my archive mailbox (something like one minute), but this mailbox is large (27887 messages, 99 MB for the moment) and I haven't installed the maildir cache yet. The only problem I have with Mutt is that it can freeze for more than one minute when a message has been received in the current maildir mailbox, even small (a few hundred messages); in general, the freeze lasts several seconds only, but this is still annoying. I don't have this problem with the mbox format. Apart from that, Mutt is quite fast. And since the IMAP code was fixed a long time ago, Mutt has never crashed, IIRC. -- Vincent Lefèvre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Web: <http://www.vinc17.org/> 100% accessible validated (X)HTML - Blog: <http://www.vinc17.org/blog/> Work: CR INRIA - computer arithmetic / SPACES project at LORIA -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
