[ Lewis Pike wrote on Tue 18.Sep'12 at 16:44:31 -0400 ] > I ran into a similar problem using mutt to access Gmail via IMAP. The > large size of my inbox made access times extremely slow. As a fix, I > set mutt's header_cache and message_cachedir variables in my .muttrc > file like so. > > set header_cache = "~/.mutt/cache/headers" > set message_cachedir = "~/.mutt/cache/bodies"
When using these settings, build mutt with tokyocabinet as opposed to qdbm or gdbm; tokyocabinet has been siginificantly faster for me.
