From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([69.77.167.62] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KIn9B-0004au-E5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:13:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 1E22EE0698; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:09:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.246]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0043CE069C for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:09:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id c28so1032829ana.47 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:09:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:date:from:to:subject :message-id:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition :in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=ck2wvPGHfsHJ+hlxQyEfl2oCi+V5z2f/GrBHmJDdSh8=; b=TcUMJ2jj2O3lV85v8v1iKpF4eAREJta74skWmB5B1LdL/wP/xvXmmgjkAHaH2aiEtw vOqFvykK/Qf40S8sXbW30dIXwQpysRy9+eXYHPSrlKfbJG4D8eJr7z3BY2QvkCG4mXXE MvnHD5SCRar8+fXIqLNCj4Om9UPq1NhPuwbfo= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:subject:message-id:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=CYm3h+4GLjsQIuDwziyXKI0X51HbvAZBgNALM4n1EsFdZhmlNIIDtmmAgYp1wl6J/t fCUQTkL2J0z94X8e4S1PqUKGz5WExXnHQ1kddGeHS6uVHncIcHDMdQG4utKJTbDH0JYg cKPykQ2S1Ea3cxayCeBRvbRAJ+tUFg7Dcd/Po= Received: by 10.100.166.9 with SMTP id o9mr11429179ane.36.1216138171415; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from ackbar.home ( [96.250.251.98]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id m6sm4830358wrm.35.2008.07.15.09.09.30 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Tue, 15 Jul 2008 09:09:31 -0700 (PDT) Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 12:09:44 -0400 From: Michael Pobega To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops Message-ID: <20080715160943.GA8365@ackbar.home> References: <20080715130534.GA32331@ackbar.home> <200807151711.34673.Nicolai.Beuermann@gmx.de> <20080715155049.GA20028@ackbar.home> Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.16 (2007-06-09) X-Archives-Salt: a0972dab-982c-49a1-b5c6-409fdbe7c6bc X-Archives-Hash: f06bdc1ffd4031346eacd502320855ef On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 04:02:07PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:25:58PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2008-07-15, Nicolai Beuermann wrote: > >> > >>>> I was looking into IMAP but I can't really figure out how it > >>>> works > >>> > >>> Maybe one can compare it with a simple remote filesystem. > >> > >> With a few database features thrown in. > >> > >> With IMAP, you can create folders on the server and leave all > >> your mail there. That way you can get to it with any IMAP > >> client on any machine. Most ISPs (and Gmail) offer web access > >> as well. > > > > One problem I find is that switching from folder to folder > > takes a long time ... Sometimes the cache saves, but other > > times it needs to reread all 54,000 emails, and that takes > > quite a while. Is there a better method of accessing my > > folders to speed this up? > > You've got 54000 emails in a single folder? Yikes. I can't > imagine that's going to be very fast even with local mail > storage. I use IMAP servers that have folders with a couple > thousand messages -- that can take a second or two. Most MUAs > have a header-caching scheme that should prevent it from having > to fetch all of the headers (let along read all the emails) > when you change folders. I have noticed that sometimes mutt > re-scans the headers when I change to a folder, but I don't > know what triggers that (it doesn't seem to happen regularly). > Yeah, my debian-user folder is at 54,000 e-mails now. It's pretty crazy, it takes me about four minutes to access it. I don't know why Mutt needs to continually cache the data, I thought the idea of caches was to prevent things like this from happening? -- If programmers deserve to be rewarded for creating innovative programs, by the same token they deserve to be punished if they restrict the use of these programs. - Richard Stallman -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list