too many messages saturates slow link

[Carlos Puchol]

hi, when i connect via a slow link to my box, i get this
when i type mutt:

Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%)

this saturates my modem line for a little while.
because (it seems) there is a lot of redraws printing
the message count (one line per message?).

is there some way to turn it
off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming
it is not printed at every message)?

thanks,

-c