[gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops

[Grant Edwards <grante@visi.com>]

On 2008-07-15, Michael Pobega <pobega@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 03:25:58PM +0000, Grant Edwards wrote:
>> On 2008-07-15, Nicolai Beuermann <Nicolai.Beuermann@gmx.de> 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).

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