On Sat, Oct 17, 2009 at 02:04:19PM +0200, Christian Brabandt wrote: > Usually mutt works okay using IMAP over GPRS and header/message caching > enabled. Sometimes it's slow, when the connection has a long delay and > there is no data coming in. I have noticed that a couple of times, when > using mutt in the train and the train was going through a tunnel.
Thanks for all the suggestions. I had header and message caching enabled, and adding imap_idle made no difference. What I don't understand is why the slowness is per key-press. I was expecting to be able to tag/move up and down the index normally, and when reading a message or deleting or moving a bunch of messages to have to wait. But tag/move is 15-20s per press. I had also considered offlineimap, but rejected it it as I read quite a few mailing lists, and often delete mail based on the subject without reading the message - offlineimap would download all my mail, and at the moment, I am paying per Mb. Perhaps I just have to bite the bullet and fork out for a 3g stick and a flat rate. > Could that be a gmail problem? I have heard, that gmail imap is broken > in various ways. A quick search gives[1], but that doesn't really explain the slowness. What is the best way of seeing what mutt/gmail is doing before/during/after the pauses? Regards Jeff [1] http://weblog.timaltman.com/archive/2008/02/24/gmails-buggy-imap-implementation
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