Re: [tlug] Mutt

[Josh Glover <tlug@example.com>]

Quoth Jim Tittsler (Sat 2004-02-28 09:10:33AM +0900):

> On Fri, Feb 27, 2004 at 10:12:16PM +0100, Tobias Diedrich wrote:
>
> > The one thing annoying me about mutt is the time it takes to open larger
> > mboxes.  Something like an index file would be nice, so it wouldn't have
> > to reparse the complete Mailbox on every time (I know there's Maildir,
> > but I don't think it would help much either).
> 
> Have you tried using mutt with an IMAP server?  I sometimes use
> it with a Dovecot IMAP server (which does maintain index files)
> which seems to help a bit.

And actually, Maildir *is* faster, since there is an index.

I guess if the speed is really an issue, you could always hack up something
to index your mailbox files out of Cron, and then have Mutt use the index.
Might be a neat little feature, if you have the time.

-- 
Josh Glover

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