Excerpts from mail: 30-Jun-99 Re: installation errors for.. by David
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> > 1. When Mutt is started or ended, it insists on doing a message count
> > in the current folder.
>
> When Mutt is started, it reads your inbox. What on earth would you want
> Mutt to do besides show you your mail?
I don't want it to fetch all of my messages by default, because with a
lot of messages, this takes a lot of time. I just want it to fetch a
screenful, or the unread ones, or a few I plan to look at for now, so I
can load mutt and start working within a few seconds.
> When Mutt is exited, it records any changes to your mailbox. You do
> want your deleted or read messages to be actually removed or marked as
> read, don't you?
Yes, however, when I don't actually do any reading or deleting, and
simply exit without making changes, why does it still need to sort
through everything?
This brings up another complaint with Mutt's exit routine: when I quit
Mutt, after the "move read messages" query, Mutt asks if I want to purge
deleted messages. This part is in error, however, because what it is
really asking is whether it should update the IMAP server with message
information. No matter if I answer Y or N, Mutt still expunges messages
from the IMAP server. This is only confusing when I answer No, because
then previously deleted messages (for example, from another mail client
session) DO get expunged, but currently deleted messages (from my
current mutt session) simply get undeleted, which I don't want either.
> Are you suggesting that other mail programs somehow take less time to
> read the mail folder, or write out and updated folder? Why would that
> be?
Because other mail programs don't fetch all automatically. They don't
thread all the messages, which is not as nice, but significantly faster
if it is only required to fetch a current few. Perhaps there is a
no-thread option on Mutt startup that I missed? If so, that might
increase startup time drastically.
Thanks,
barbara
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