On Sun, 31 May 2009, James wrote: > Bill, > > What do you have your $mail_check set to? > > If I set it to something rather low (15), mutt becomes extremely slow.
This is the relevant portion of my muttrc # activate TLS if available on the server set ssl_starttls=yes # always use SSL when connecting to a server # set ssl_force_tls=yes # Don't wait to enter mailbox manually #unset imap_passive # Automatically poll subscribed mailboxes for new mail (new in 1.5.11) set imap_check_subscribed=yes # Reduce polling frequency to a sane level set mail_check=300 # And poll the current mailbox more often (not needed with IDLE in post 1.5.11) set timeout=300 # keep a cache of headers for faster loading (2.5.9+?) set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/headers set message_cachedir=~/.mutt/cache/bodies set certificate_file=~/.certs set message_cache_clean=yes # # Display download progress every 100K set net_inc=100 set read_inc=2000 # How often to update the mailbox reading counter set write_inc=500 # How often to update the mailbox writing counter # -- regards, ==================================================== GPG key 1024D/4434BAB3 2008-08-24 gpg --keyserver subkeys.pgp.net --recv-keys 4434BAB3 唐詩191 杜甫 詠懷古跡五首之二 搖落深知宋玉悲 風流儒雅亦吾師 悵望千秋一灑淚 蕭條異代不同時 江山故宅空文藻 雲雨荒臺豈夢思 最是楚宮俱泯滅 舟人指點到今疑