All, I use procmail + mutt and am running into a problem that is limiting my usage of mutt. Currently procmail sorts some very high volume mailing lists into specific folders (mbox format). I'm using mutt as an IMAP client and when I add these mailboxes to my .muttrc file, mutt sometimes takes 5 to 10 minutes to fully load and sort all the messages.
Worse, when the timer expires and mutt begins checking mailboxes for new messages, the client freezes until the check is done. Is there a way to "thread" or "background" the mail checking process in mutt so that I don't have to deal with this problem? I could use a third-party IMAP new mail checker, such as gbuffy, but I'd prefer to use mutt if possible. Thoughts? Ideas? Thanks! -j
