Am 2009-10-15 22:11:06, schrieb Jeffrey Ratcliffe: > Mutt works well with my gmail account via IMAP over a broadband > connection. However, I would like to also use it over a GPRS > connection, and then, although mutt starts up OK, and displays the > index at a speed one might expect, navigating around the index is too > slow to be useable - i.e. tagging a message or moving down or up take > around 30s. > > Over the same connection, gmail works acceptably quickly via webmail.
> What can I do to speed up navigating the index view? I don't know if this is at all helpful, but on my laptop I bypass mutt's IMAP completely, and use offlineimap to synchronise my IMAP folders with local maildirs. There are all kinds of advantages, not least that changing folders in mutt is much faster. I imagine moving around the index must be faster too, but over broadband the difference is too small to be noticeable. (This being a laptop, my main motivation, of course, was to be able to read and write email whilst offline.) Offlineimap claims to be extremely fast at synchronising IMAP folders, so it might be usable over GPRS. In any case, it can be left to run away in the background, so it's speed doesn't have much impact on mutt's responsiveness other than how quickly you see new mails. HTH, Toby -- Dr T. S. Cubitt Quantum Information Theory group Department of Mathematics University of Bristol United Kingdom email: ts...@cantab.net web: www.dr-qubit.org
