On Sun, Apr 17, 2011 at 02:42:45AM +0530, Raghavendra D Prabhu wrote: > Hi, > Currently I am using maildir format with mutt. But, I find that > everytime I switch folder, *entire* folder refreshes. This becomes an > issue on folders containing thousands of messages when I want to read > say 10 new ones. I sync messages with getmail periodically, so is there > a way to open folder in mutt without syncing (because I know when it > will be refreshed ie. cron ) ? The use case for this may be when quickly > switching between folders back and forth ?
perhaps you need to look at using Maildir caching? -it's in the manual.
