Excerpts from mail: 29-Jun-99 Re: installation errors for.. by Lars
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> I have repeatedly posted patches to fix building outside the source
> directory, but they have never made it into the source tree ...
Can you point me to some? I was unable to find your patches on a brief
tour of listed Mutt patches.
> > 1. When Mutt is started or ended, it insists on doing a message count
> > in the current folder. This is not a problem so much as a time suck.
> > One tester has a "small" mailbox (by our realm standards) of over 1000
> > messages, and this count takes over a minute, which is annoying.
>
> Maybe it's time to think about reorganising mail folders? On mailing
> lists with a lot of traffic, I normally archive and compress all stuff
> at the beginning of the calendar month. Procmail can provide an
> automatic way of doing this.
That's a great solution, except it would be near impossible to convince
our campus community of several thousand email users to do that. Also,
Procmail doesn't work well at all with our email setup.
barbara
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