Bill, What do you have your $mail_check set to?
If I set it to something rather low (15), mutt becomes extremely slow. -j 2009/5/31 James <j...@nc.rr.com>: > 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 >> >
