Re: Slow opening of IMAP mailboxes
Peter Surda <shurdeek <at> panorama.sth.ac.at>
2003-01-03 16:26:15 GMT
On Fri, Jan 03, 2003 at 05:07:21PM +0100, Pawel Salek wrote:
> Hi,
hi
> I have noticed that mutt downloads all the headers from IMAP mailbox on
> opening. This procedure is quite time consuming for large mailboxes,
> particularly on slow links (I am on a decent DSL link and I have a
> mailbox opened by pine in 4 seconds and by mutt in 40). Has anybody
> considered rewriting this part of the code in such a way that only
> headers of displayed messages are fetched? I can imagine this would
> require a number of major changes but I think it would be very desired
> modification. If not, what would be a best spot to start?
About 2 weeks ago, a patch was sent to the list that caches headers locally. I
haven't tested it though.
> Pawel Salek
Bye,
Peter Surda (Shurdeek) <shurdeek <at> panorama.sth.ac.at>, ICQ 10236103, +436505122023
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