Grant Edwards schrieb: > 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). > I have ~20,000 mails in one folder. I found some mail reader handle this better than others. I haven't tried Mutt but ClawsMail freezes with 100% CPU-utilization for half a minute every time the folder is accessed. I have no problems with Thunderbird or Evolution, though.