On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 02:52:57PM +0100, Adam Wellings wrote: > If the set of maildirs rarely changes, would it be faster to > generate a file and just source that in your .muttrc?
It depends on what information from the file system is already cached. Assuming that nothing is cached, I would think that a file is faster. > I can't do that as I use procmail to > sometimes create new maildirs in some situations. > > Also, I've looked up why my script is no longer used, it took ~8-9s to > produce the list. I'm sure it could be improved upon generally, but as find > does the job, it'd purely be an academic exercise. Then mutt-mb is for you, it's pretty fast :)