On Tue, Jun 24, 2003 at 06:57:14AM -0600, Mike Roest wrote: > Yes but mutt doesn't cache headers for IMAP accounts so if you plan to > leave the list messages in the account (as I do my gentoo-user account > has 26000 messages in it) mutt takes inordinate amounts of time to > startup as it has to go and fetch the headers everytime. If it had > header caching for imap accounts it would be much more viable as a imap > reader.
IMAP is the one thing that pine does better than mutt. It's not just header cacheing, imho: it's also being smarter with the IMAP protocol. If you only need the last 24 headers to draw the folder list, why ask for all 26,000? Get the 24 you need to draw the screen then collect the remainder in a background thread while the user is staring at his sceen reading mail. Brendan Cully has done yeoman's service with IMAP support in mutt -- apparently these features aren't trivial to add. Wish my coding skills were better.... :-) Regards, -- Rex -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
