Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-22 Thread Dave Smith
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:37:55PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm considering switching to IMAP. How good is Mutt as an IMAP client? I'm currently just accessing local mbox files directly, but I'd like to be able to access my mail from other machines. Good, provided you use a recent

Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-22 Thread Gerhard Hring
Le 21/01/02 à 21:37, Samuel Padgett écrivit: I'm considering switching to IMAP. How good is Mutt as an IMAP client? I'm currently just accessing local mbox files directly, but I'd like to be able to access my mail from other machines. mutt + IMAP works very well for me. It should be

Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-22 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sam, I use mutt at work to read mail from an IMAP store. While I love mutts functionality, I must say that the its speed in processing IMAP stores strikes me as slow. I think this is because mutt doesn't seem to have any caching mechanism. As a result, each tim you open an imap subfolder you

Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-22 Thread Kai Blin
* Dave Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED] [22/01/02, 08:43:27]: Good, provided you use a recent (beta) copy (e.g. 1.3.26). However, I'm having some stability problems (about 1 segfault/day), but hopefully this will be fixed soon. Did you report them? I have none. What's your OS/Distribution? Did you

Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-22 Thread Christian Ordig
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:30:19PM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I must say that the its speed in processing IMAP stores strikes me as slow. I think this is because mutt doesn't seem to have any caching mechanism. As a result, each tim you open an imap subfolder you have to wait for it to

Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-22 Thread Steven G . Harms
David, I use 1.3.9i and the IMAP functionality, while admittedly beyond comprehension in better than the 1.2x series, is still very slow. I'd really like to get more Mutt users here, but the slow spool and respool of the IMAP folders is a showstopper (versus PINE IMAP or Netscape Mail). It's

Re: Mutt IMAP -- how good?

2002-01-21 Thread David Rock
On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 09:37:55PM -0500, Samuel Padgett wrote: I'm considering switching to IMAP. How good is Mutt as an IMAP client? I'm currently just accessing local mbox files directly, but I'd like to be able to access my mail from other machines. I use IMAP to access the Exchange