On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:15 AM, Rocco Rutte <pd...@gmx.net> wrote: > Hi, > > * James wrote: > >> 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. > > Did you turn on header caching? Are you sure this isn't a network > problem? What version of mutt? What is large, btw?
I definitely have header caching. I'm fairly certain I have body caching as well. The network is definitely not a problem...v1.5.16. By large I'm talking about, uhhh, ~7000 emails. More or less. >> Worse, when the timer expires and mutt begins checking mailboxes for >> new messages, the client freezes until the check is done. > > How long does that take? Mutt doesn't do anything in this case except > asking the IMAP server for mailbox status. Maybe the server needs a long > time to answer for huge folders? If yes, then mutt can't do anything > about it. You need to raise $mail_check then to make it check less > often. So you're saying that after mutt initially starts, downloads all the emails and the initial sorting is done, It'll only check every $mail_check period to see if there are new messages *without* re-downloading the entire content of the mailboxes? >> 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? > > No, not really, sorry. > > Rocco >
