On Thu, Aug 21, 2008 at 03:55:35AM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote: > Of course it is, the fact that mutt is using the network to > download-then-upload the messages is the entire problem! Which is > going to be > faster: > > A: Downloading 2000 messages totaling 10Mb over a 300kps connection > then upload them to the Trash folder on a 35kps upload. > > B: Tell the server, "copy these 2000 messages to the Trash folder > using the local system BUS oh, and mark them as deleted, thanks."
Well, I have got about 17000 messages on my server and mutt works very fast downloading nothing of them. I use this in my .muttrc to achieve that: set spoolfile=imaps://192.168.0.1/INBOX set folder=imaps://192.168.0.1 set imap_user=js set imap_login=js set imap_pass=<mypassword> I am not sure whether the imap_user and imap_login both have to be there. Regards Johann -- Johann Spies Telefoon: 021-808 4036 Informasietegnologie, Universiteit van Stellenbosch "For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the dead in Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air: and so shall we ever be with the Lord." I Thessalonians 4:16,17 -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]