Re: Mutt 1.1.9 about 3-4x slower than mutt 1.0 (was Re: [Announce] mutt-1.1.9 is out - RELEASE CANDIDATE!)

[Thomas Roessler]

On 2000-03-15 09:36:26 -0500, Eric Boehm wrote:

> It sounds like you are saying that I should change the
> combination of 
> 
> +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK
> 
> to something else but it isn't clear to me what I
> should change it to.

You really want to compile your mutt 1.0 with an external
dotlock program.  However, I'd really suggest you stick
with 1.1.

> Are there any changes I should make to the HP-UX configuration. That has

> +USE_SETGID +USE_DOTLOCK +USE_FCNTL -USE_FLOCK

That's fine, reliability-wise.

>     Lars> <rant> Convenient as they are, charsets are another feature that
>     Lars> make it easier for ppl to shoot themselves (and others) in the
>     Lars> foot. Now that my mutt is charset sensitive, I often find messages
>     Lars> with big5, iso-2022-jp, or koi8-r, although none of the special
>     Lars> characters are actually in the message body (checked with vi in
>     Lars> "C"). Free performance killer with every mail message.  </rant>

> Is there a way to diable this "feature"?

You can use the edit-type function to change mutt's idea
of what content type and/or character set a message is in.

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