Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread Nick Jones
On Mon, 02 May 2011 at 20:52:29 +0200, Toby Cubitt wrote: On Mon, May 02, 2011 at 02:17:26PM +0200, Jose M Vidal wrote: No way: just set the caching just for headers, but the response is still very slow. Any other clue I can follow? I use offlineimap with mutt, and found that switching to

Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread Mark Foxwell
On 05/05/11 13:43, Nick Jones wrote: This is on an Apple MacBook Air with SSD, and mutt has been configured with header-cacheing enabled and support for tokyo-cabinet compiled therein. For me this is still too slow, but I'm not sure that there's much else that can be done to improve it.

Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread Tim Gray
On May 05, 2011 at 01:43 PM +0100, Nick Jones wrote: For reference, mutt (1.5.20) on my machine currently takes 11 seconds to open my offlineimap'd Gmail 'All Mail' folder which contains 17,418 messages. It then takes a further 6 seconds to close the mailbox, write any changes, and then switch

Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread John J. Foster
My header cache (tokyo cabinet) seems to get slow on certain mailboxes every few weeks. I just blow away that mailboxes cache and let it rebuild and all is well again. I ALWAYS blow away the entire cache whenever I pull a new version of mutt from mercurial and whenever tokyo cabinet gets updated

Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread Tim Gray
On May 05, 2011 at 08:52 AM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: My header cache (tokyo cabinet) seems to get slow on certain mailboxes every few weeks. I just blow away that mailboxes cache and let it rebuild and all is well again. I ALWAYS blow away the entire cache whenever I pull a new version of

Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread John J. Foster
Forgot to mention - this is strictly an IMAP connection - no local mailboxes On Thu, 05 May 2011 11:12 -0400, Tim Gray lists+m...@protozoic.com wrote: On May 05, 2011 at 08:52 AM -0600, John J. Foster wrote: My header cache (tokyo cabinet) seems to get slow on certain mailboxes every few

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Jostein Berntsen
On 03.05.11,10:21, Tim Gray wrote: On May 03, 2011 at 08:39 AM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: I use mairix, but it seems like mu is being quite actively developed: Yes, mu is quite actively developed. I liked it a fair amount. I just have a feeling that notmuch has a brighter future. I

Re: offlineimap much slower than gmail-imap

2011-05-05 Thread Jose M Vidal
Hi again, Thanks for your help: I finally decided to use a database for my searches. Just installed mairix and made a simple script: everytime I need to search, just swich to terminal, run a script that waits for the string I am searching, executes mairix and opens a new mutt sesion within the new

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Sebastian Tramp
On Thu, May 05, 2011 at 09:08:36PM +0200, Jostein Berntsen wrote: I use mairix, but it seems like mu is being quite actively developed: Yes, mu is quite actively developed. I liked it a fair amount. I just have a feeling that notmuch has a brighter future. I tested the most recent

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Sebastian Tramp
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 10:21:10AM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: I use mairix, but it seems like mu is being quite actively developed: Yes, mu is quite actively developed. I liked it a fair amount. I just have a feeling that notmuch has a brighter future. Does notmuch have a similar feature to

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Sebastian Tramp
On Tue, May 03, 2011 at 11:20:02AM -0400, Tim Gray wrote: Can you share your config parts regarding notmuch / mutt integration? (or do you use it via emacs?) I don't use it via emacs. The mutt integration is very similar to what you'd do with mairix or mu. A couple of bindings that just run

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Tim Gray
On May 06, 2011 at 05:17 AM +0200, Sebastian Tramp wrote: This is indeed an interesting feature. Do you use it instead of lbdbq? Maybe I'm missing something. Is it really that useful of a feature if you already use lbdb and feed it with your outgoing mail? One of the other things I like

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Tim Gray
On May 06, 2011 at 05:24 AM +0200, Sebastian Tramp wrote: Does notmuch have a similar feature to mu's cfind? I did not find it in the docu -- but the project name is policy also in terms of documentation :-) See my other email - I'm not exactly sure what cfind does. It's pretty easy to

Re: mairix search

2011-05-05 Thread Omen Wild
Quoting Tim Gray lists+m...@protozoic.com on Fri, May 06 00:12: Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't mu and/or mairix require to use a from: of f: tag and only match on complete addresses? By default all matches are exact, which is nice for subject or body searches, but not so nice for