Slowness when coloring the index

Kevin J. McCarthy kevin at 8t8.us
Fri May 25 16:45:28 UTC 2018


On Fri, May 25, 2018 at 04:33:36PM +0200, Ralf Hildebrandt wrote:
> That's working OK, but it's quite slow. It seems that mutt is fetching
> the whole body (instead of just the headers).

Yes, it is.  ~h is a very bad idea to use for index coloring.  If
possible you should use the 'spam' command and '~H' instead
<https://muttmua.gitlab.io/mutt/manual-dev.html#spam>

You can do the same kind of thing for other headers too:
<http://www.8t8.us/blog/2016/07/03/caching-additional-headers-in-mutt.html>

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