On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:02:07PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > 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 > >>>> works > >>> > >>> Maybe 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). >
Yeah, my debian-user folder is at 54,000 e-mails now. It's pretty crazy, it takes me about four minutes to access it. I don't know why Mutt needs to continually cache the data, I thought the idea of caches was to prevent things like this from happening? -- If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list
