On Saturday, 13 June 2009 at 19:46, John Magolske wrote: > Hi, > > I'm running Mutt on Debian unstable and have not been able to get > header caching to work. I've created a directory "mutt-headercache" > in $HOME: > > % ls -ld ~/mutt-headercache > drwxrwxr-x 2 me me 4096 2009-03-21 22:19 /home/me/mutt-headercache/ > > and put this in my ~/.muttrc: > > set header_cache = ~/mutt-headercache/ > set header_cache_pagesize = '32000' > > ":set ?header_cache" returns "header_cache=~/mutt-headercache/" > > But this directory remains completely empty at all times. > > I'm using pop3, mbox & ext3. > > TIA for any suggestions on how to get this working,
Mutt doesn't cache headers for mbox mailboxes. For pop3 it should if and only if you're using pop:// access. Downloading pop into a local mbox with pop_host and fetch-mail means you're using mbox to read your mail and won't need header caching.
