Hum. Maybe my IMAP server is kinda slow then?
I could try tying mutt to my Gmail account to see what happens. Here's what I have in my .muttrc file (for caching): set header_cache="~/.mutt/cache/headers" set message_cachedir="~/.mutt/cache/messages" There seem to be files in there, so I imagine that the caching is working correctly. I just ran a tcpdump and worked on mutt for a bit and here's what I'm noticing: - loading a mailbox the first time around takes a bit of time and results in some reasonable level of traffic to / from the mail server - once a mailbox is loaded, the index for that mailbox seems to work smoothly - loading a single message in that mailbox then takes a few seconds (~5?) I haven't compared to see what happens when I turn off caching, though. Bill, are you saying that after the initial 30 second process for your Gmail, everything loads up instantly (specific email messages, etc.) afterwards? -j On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 10:32 AM, bill lam <cbill....@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote: >> By large I'm talking about, uhhh, ~7000 emails. More or less. > > My imap account in gmail have over 30000 message, and also a local > maildir mailbox for rss having over 80000 message. They need about 10 > to 30 seconds to initial cache checking. > > FYI > > -- > regards, > ==================================================== > GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 > gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 > 唐詩259 盧綸 塞下曲四首之四 > 野幕蔽瓊筵 羌戎賀勞旋 醉和金甲舞 雷鼓動山川 >
