Hi folks, I am connecting to an imap server and have a large number of mailboxes (>300). I am trying to find an efficient workflow to use the sidebar and navigate through these mailboxes. Some are getting a lot of emails very frequently, others very rarely. At first I configured all the mailboxes with -poll, and set sidebar to check for new emails, and report new message count. This was terribly slow. Every time I'd switch to the next mailbox with unread messages in the sidebar, I'd have to wait for 4-5 seconds while mutt would (I guess) check all the mailboxes to update the message count.
I then changed strategy, and created two files to list mailboxes: 1. mailboxes.nopoll.muttrc, where I list all the mailboxes with -nopoll argument 2. mailboxes.poll.muttrc, where I list the same mailboxes with -poll argument Both these files are generated, so I don't mind the duplication. Then I added the following macro: bind index,pager G noop macro index,pager G ":source ~/.mutt/mailboxes.poll.muttrc^M:exec check-stats^M:source ~/.mutt/mailboxes.nopoll.muttrc^M" Now, when I press G, mutt basically does a manual check of all the mailboxes, then gets back to -nopol. As a result, switching between folders in the sidebar is almost instantaneous, but with the caveat thar new message counts aren't updated automatically (I have to press G again). Curious if folks on this list have had to optimize for this kind of scenario and what they came up with. Thanks! Eric
