On Monday 24 Jun 2013 09:43:53 John Long wrote: > Since nobody said anything yet, it seems like this is related to IMAP and > Mutt's design. I use POP when possible since it doesn't query the server > until you tell it to. You won't see new messages that way but it also > doesn't get affected by the speed of the IMAP server and the connection > until you fetch mail. > > If you have many mails are you using the cache setting in .mutt?
I have more than 30,000 messages on a gmail IMAP account and even with caching it takes minutes for mutt to download and evaluate the headers each time I connect to the server. I have posted about this problem when I was trying to troubleshoot it recently. In contrast, local folders with 10,000+ messages load in a second or two. Other IMAP accounts with just a few hundreds of messages load up within a couple of seconds. It may be my lack of knowledge with mutt that has produced this latency, but having spent a week tweaking my configuration I did not see any improvement. The OP circumstances may be different. -- Regards, Mick
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