Chris G schrieb am 23.06.2010 um 13:11 (+0100): > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 11:22:53AM +0200, Christian Ebert wrote:
> > Maildir vs. mbox: I found that Maildir with header_cache is way > > faster than mbox in opening large mailboxes, even though I'm on a > > Mac where HFS+ is supposedly not good at handling a lot of small > > files. YMMV. > Why is mbox slow at reading large mailboxes though, it doesn't make > much sense as it's only got to open one file as opposed to maildir > opening at least one file per message. To display the index with maildir, Mutt has to read the header_cache; to do so with mbox, Mutt has to read the whole file. That's why. > ...., thinks, I *believe* my problem with mutt not seeing new incoming > mail is because of my delivery mechanism. I use a custom python > script to deliver my mail to multiple mailboxes (split basically by > mailing lists) and it's that which doesn't play nicely with mutt for > some reason. I use procmail, and Mutt doesn't care which procedure is used. What Mutt cares is about is the atime or size of the mbox. Try applying the setting Christian suggested, it works perfectly for me. -- Michael Ludwig
