-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Monday, August 24 at 10:53 PM, quoth Robert Holtzman: > There are 20 files some with as many as 30-40k messages. This ~/mail > directory was copied over from my desktop box where mutt works > flawlessly. > > mail_check=10. I'll try increasing it later when I get some more time.
In other words, if checking all your mailboxes takes longer than 10 seconds, mutt will be caught in an infinite loop of checking for new mail. It may have worked better on your desktop box because the hard drive there is faster and has more cache. What type of mailboxes do you use? Different formats (mbox vs mh vs maildir) take different amounts of effort to identify new messages in extremely large mailboxes. Mbox is usually the fastest because mutt relies on the timestamps on the mailbox file. ~Kyle - -- And thou shalt smite the house of Ahab thy master, that I may avenge the blood of my servants the prophets, and the blood of all the servants of the LORD, at the hand of Jezebel. For the whole house of Ahab shall perish. -- Bible, II Kings (9:7-8) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Comment: Thank you for using encryption! iQIcBAEBCAAGBQJKk/EVAAoJECuveozR/AWe4BAQAIGwQ68GLut25H+5CliRAIsn pXh2RiJia5fYZZeB9Pi8c9I/J7S9+8QEbVrNmbijgtHe8E3WsEY+ZmqWiRf783+Z RZPTRDuzOw0MCiKQW7xQB8hcmfykYh6x/CMccb6eY50XW08Q9LQ/1rC0VEN++zRu sYYAw46zl5tU1xykCC41QN+6IXhRBhUGr60uL1+CpP5m2k+bpL8zTdBhbZvA0+m5 B3WN07sj9d9hq+ro7fiZ/GKEc9pcjJ4YQO+6K1+APh4YdZl2Uwqlvypu2hivPWS+ XFsr8k6ASqDr18lBLHrO6oVu5wNa9SDwjSrPv7TqCZIv3J5nbfPKADV+vqEAfeDW 2O9y4vex9qFbKRNQx4v2h00BGaWlOD/d1ldnTxrQ0BAkgf7HoOwuWAcRN9ocfBV6 pqtYsPmOov1dMcyGLQMuT5RfNEaDsAJU2N5g5iafYtrXHQN0HDZU/n38Jc33b6DW mjxqbv7GrjnSueD6Mm7M7btgbMtthhbp99SMl/we5xxaVCrPsDBf9OxvGrGQ9yQ9 cVKGzB/cJ+DGZq0DDuOy4FBIsbChGHBLBYDq0E0P/+FPewtgAG3bXF1ZtVDrOqhG vWJuuSZTaRzObywUUM+aU5zuSJvuyJsghfhWPnf48clqNf/h0WtWUgxyNGoW9Ryc hZFopq7wYSZLkL/2yP3t =Cayu -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----