You mail admins take things too personally. ;) I said something *more* reasonable because, as I mentioned earlier, I was turning knobs and pushing buttons to figure out what may have been slowing everything down.
75 is not the value I expect to use on a daily basis. I'm simply troubleshooting to determine what may ultimately be causing an overally slowness in my situation. I recommend you crack open a beer and relax. ;) -j On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 2:36 PM, Kyle Wheeler <kyle-m...@memoryhole.net> wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA256 > > On Sunday, May 31 at 11:02 AM, quoth James: >> It seems a good bit of the problem I am having is related to the >> $mail_check period. If I have it too low mutt becomes completely >> unresponsive, regardless of what I try to do. > > Again - for obvious reasons. > >> Setting it to a more reasonable value (75 seconds) improves the >> situation a bit. > > You have a very strange idea of what is "reasonable". Given that other > mail programs, like thunderbird, cannot check mail any more frequently > than once per minute (that's their minimum), and the default value is > usually 5every 5 minutes, what makes you think that 75 seconds is > "reasonable"? Speaking as a man who runs a mail server for lots of > other people, 75 seconds is very unreasonable, and is approaching > absurd. > > If you really really MUST HAVE MAIL THIS INSTANT, I highly recommend > using IMAP's IDLE feature. You simple add "set imap_idle" to your > muttrc. That way your IMAP server will NOTIFY you when mail comes in, > rather than having you ping it every time you blink. > > ~Kyle > - -- > Faith... must be enforced by reason. [...] When faith becomes blind it > dies. > -- Ghandi > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Comment: Thank you for using encryption! > > iQIVAwUBSiLOMiuveozR/AWeAQhjAw//V7qMzYIEiUetLsTDavaUk3Wey6YGleyu > qS6chC2vH9HVoss/2SfFhH2nEjc0uW0QnBbqK3Ez9TruUJHL8t4VIORtQNtEseCf > ZRqD08LIS3DdVbIe1WPfQDZzCx8VOGWyZ69SbuzS+FAllZdYJkQdxGJJxVdj9rM0 > pAKEPyPvELSfDf23IVdb96gQt2q/J7VHBUVbfgFkSNS3/y/D7OeTbG3DfMkqSPX7 > niVKdBHHVlReEKQeVTdfym8NPNtKlgjeZ3P5jvr3u21d7HQL8YEoQCWk+TzERzeb > 6SIsZoi7bAviQzVgYPNd7PTWt7ejUCk1EsEu21887YM7xuaj6o39N4feEewLhpf7 > JjzuPZP+/Js1Y+cL/A+LnAERyrv5IK2qrcqCTr4MGvP2Mysckwouo7OrOjFWz3Ts > cK09XI3HPZZ7S4cr6ZGy8moGkuc8+KwtxcgQ8+bceyeE9OZl05AUDE+ySbDMB1nn > M0xp12e90E4iCd76G1CNJZzoBHZF7jdqvwqvmM46vDmUa55wi0wf8afCngnXIvCj > tFjFrezwyWpcCKfkGwdb5zjpBYA9wHmY1QLhyVx+MfgiQpbUyJavd4gtIChU1ESJ > 9xOwh50i3syJRRY0eoaTyFs0QLgW5DkjYFFOghmPegZwmlr8AtNeNofaSC8YGkGM > i8CAfxf+E7E= > =J6xc > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >
