On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 08:51:35PM +0100, Angel M Alganza wrote: > On Mon, Feb 15, 2021 at 07:40:58PM +0000, Chris Green wrote: > > > Where does mutt keep these header caches then? > > I have 'set header_cache=~/.mutt/cache/'. > > > I don't have set header_cache set for the good reason that mutt doesn't > > download mail from anywhere, it's all here on my desktop. > > The cache is for the headers, so that Mutt loads even local maildirs much > faster. So, I think even it might not be an issue, everybody might benefit > from the cache. Perhaps if you have small maildirs and/or a very powerful > computer it doesn't make much a difference? > I have (for example) about 6000 messages in my sentmail folder, it loads in less than a second. It is a *lot* faster since I installed an NVME SSD.
-- Chris Green
