Ben Escoto wrote: > 1. How do I get a list of folders with new messages in them? What > I'd like is to press a button and get a numbered list of folders > with the number of new messages in them. Then to change folder I > could just type in the number.
well you have to define which mailboxes you want to receive incoming mail; ie: mailboxes ! +labels +admin +cron or something like that (they can be all on one line or split over multiple lines, i believe). to see the list, start mutt with 'mutt -y', or hit <change-folder>?<CR> (you can make a macro for this if you want; i was used to PINE so i bound ',' to this). > 2. Changing folders is really slow. Right now I'm using IMAP and it > seems to take about a full second for every 1000 messages in the > folder. By contrast, I'd say Evolution was about twice (?) as > fast when initially reading the folder upon startup, and very > fast (1.5-2+ orders of magnitude faster) when revisiting one. evolution caches IMAP mail IIRC; mutt does not... > I'm not especially wedded to IMAP (with Mutt I can just ssh into > my machine) so if the answer is that Mutt isn't good with imap and > much better with mbox or mh or whatever, that's fine. I just > didn't want to spend an hour switching everything and then only > get a 2x speedup or something. it will almost definitely be faster with local mbox folders. > Also, I saw a "maildir header caching" patch by Michael Elkins - > is that relevant to my problem? only if you're using Maildir. helps out a bit (a lot in certain cases). -- Will Yardley input: william < @ hq . newdream . net . >
