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 1KImzV-0003EQ-I5 for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:03:01 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5E4ECE02A7; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (smtp.gentoo.org [140.211.166.183]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 34E33E02A7 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:39 +0000 (UTC) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C6BCF65F47 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:38 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at gentoo.org X-Spam-Score: -2.73 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.73 required=5.5 tests=[AWL=0.869, BAYES_00=-2.599, RCVD_IN_DNSWL_LOW=-1] Received: from smtp.gentoo.org ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.gentoo.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id ILbQhUCx+ZPD for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:30 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ciao.gmane.org (main.gmane.org [80.91.229.2]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F71465DCE for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:28 +0000 (UTC) Received: from list by ciao.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.43) id 1KImyp-0007fv-Kc for gentoo-user@gentoo.org; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:19 +0000 Received: from c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net ([76.17.159.23]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:19 +0000 Received: from grante by c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:19 +0000 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org From: Grant Edwards Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: Mail on multiple laptops Date: Tue, 15 Jul 2008 16:02:07 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: 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-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: c-76-17-159-23.hsd1.mn.comcast.net User-Agent: slrn/pre0.9.9-102 (Linux) Sender: news X-Archives-Salt: 2851bd2e-4e75-4c6d-8e9a-c2c7f3a6e942 X-Archives-Hash: 8e9b2ec5b857c907376cef11a74699b0 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). -- Grant Edwards grante Yow! I'd like some JUNK at FOOD ... and then I want to visi.com be ALONE -- -- gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list