On 2001.03.30, in <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>,
"Suresh Ramasubramanian" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Carlos Puchol proclaimed on mutt-users that:
>
> > Reading /var/spool/mail/me... 1869 (33%)
>
> > this saturates my modem line for a little while.
>
> > is there some way to turn it
> > off or just make it show the XX% part (assuming
> > it is not printed at every message)?
>
> That's because mutt has to read the contents of your mbox format mailbox.
> Switch to (say) maildir. Much faster (and better, if you handle large amounts
> of mail).
I get a lot of mail, and don't need to use maildir for performance
reasons. Mbox works fine. Changing to maildir won't solve this
problem, either, unless for some odd reason maildir switches out the
progress report.
What you probably want is to set the read_inc variable, or to make it
larger than it is already. $read_inc indicates how often to update the
status report line whlie reading a mailbox. For example, setting it
to 50 makes the status line update every 50 messages, instead of with
each message.
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-D. [EMAIL PROTECTED] NSIT University of Chicago
