I run mutt via an ssh connection, i.e. I connect from a terminal window in my laptop (running xubuntu 19.04) to my desktop machine (running xubuntu 19.10) using ssh and then run mutt.
For some reason changing from one mbox to another is slow when I do this, the ssh connection is fast, nothing else slows down and moving around within the mbox is snappy enough, it's just closing one mbox and opening the next that's slow. Doing exactly the same thing directly in a terminal window on my desktop machine doesn't show the same slowness. By 'slow' I mean a noticeable delay, probably of the order of a second or two. These are not enormous mbox files, most have only a dozen or so messages, only one or two of them are more than a screenful. It's as if when mutt changes mbox it's sending a lot of complex screen formatting commands that take a while over the ssh connection. Is it possible that something like this is what's happening? It's not a big deal really, just a bit annoying. -- Chris Green
