Grant Edwards schrieb:
On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:25:58PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:On 2008-07-15, Nicolai Beuermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:I was looking into IMAP but I can't really figure out how it worksMaybe one can compare it with a simple remote filesystem.With a few database features thrown in. With IMAP, you can create folders on the server and leave all your mail there. That way you can get to it with any IMAP client on any machine. Most ISPs (and Gmail) offer web access as well.One problem I find is that switching from folder to folder takes a long time ... Sometimes the cache saves, but other times it needs to reread all 54,000 emails, and that takes quite a while. Is there a better method of accessing my folders to speed this up?You've got 54000 emails in a single folder? Yikes. I can't imagine that's going to be very fast even with local mail storage. I use IMAP servers that have folders with a couple thousand messages -- that can take a second or two. Most MUAs have a header-caching scheme that should prevent it from having to fetch all of the headers (let along read all the emails) when you change folders. I have noticed that sometimes mutt re-scans the headers when I change to a folder, but I don't know what triggers that (it doesn't seem to happen regularly).
I have ~20,000 mails in one folder. I found some mail reader handle this better than others. I haven't tried Mutt but ClawsMail freezes with 100% CPU-utilization for half a minute every time the folder is accessed. I have no problems with Thunderbird or Evolution, though.
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