26-Mar-02 at 11:33, Will Yardley ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote : > jennyw wrote: > > > Also, I notice that when I open up a folder, it gets all the headers > > before it displays them. Is there a way to get it to a) cache > > information) or b) read only some of the headers instead of all of > > them?
If you stay in the index, rather than going to the pager, then you can see which headers are available without downloading. It is annoying, however, to have to dl a whole message (especially when some fool sends you a screenshot of their problem with LookOut Express in Windows BMP format at 3Mb when they could have done the same in JPEG with about 40Kb). I feel that IMAP support is still incomplete; Mutt is primarily a MUA for reading local mail, or for integrating with fetchmail and a POP scenario, which amounts to the same thing for Mutt since all mailboxes are local. Mutt does have a canny advantage though: you can delete attachments and keep only the message body, which I find useful for trouble tickets with big attachments that I no longer need, but want to archive. > if you have shell access on your mail machine, and it's on a good > connection, i'd just run mutt on the machine itself. Well, you might not be able to compile mutt on a public mail server for one, or get shell access. Mail servers are often too busy to have SSH sessions on them all over the place. Secondly, on a dialup link, it's too slow if you SSH somewhere and you have to /compose/ mail. For moving around the screen, even if you're good with vim (or whatever you set $THE_ONE_TRUE_EDITOR to) is not responsive enough. And if you have a connection that is fast enough not to notice that, you can probably download mail fast anyway. I SSH to my workstation from a fixed IP authenticated dialup connection at home and it's too slow to compose mail, although reading mail is quicker with Mutt than PINE running locally and just fetching mail from the server. This is largely due to the pager allowing faster browsing of mail. Even on 10Mbps local network, this IMAP issue needs improving - it causes Mutt to wait around sometimes, especially when in the pager and I forget to go back to the index, and wait for the messages to be downloaded one by one as I hit down arrow. Attachments should /never/ be systematically downloaded, that is the beauty of IMAP. And, to be able get my mail with PINE or other IMAP clients from wherever I happen to be. keeping mail locally is a travesty if you travel and move around a lot... you never know when you will need to refer back to some old email when you are challenged by a client whilst on site. -- [Simon White. vim/mutt. [EMAIL PROTECTED] GIMPS:56.62% see www.mersenne.org] Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean, I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff. -- Mariah Carey [Arbitrary quotes signature rotation, a simple bash script by Simon White]
