[SOLVED] Re: mutt seems laggy to resume on v.2.x

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Hi,

I *think* i've found the reason for the lagginess. Hopefully what's here will
be of use to others.

With mutt, for this address I make a config file, launch mutt in a screen with -F.
On the remote system, I have a lot of different folders which I'll use 
with different email addresses. These email addresses are aliases to the main
account.

What was happening before (mutt v.1.x) was mutt would log in, scan the
imap folders i'd configured for it in .muttrc-lists (and *only* those 
folders, no others) then return and this was quick on an average dsl line.

What is happening now (mutt v.2.x) is it's scanning everything under the
main account. There's a lot of mail there. It's this which is taking the time. 
This was found using -d 2 with mutt. If more than say 30s elapses between
moving pages or moving the highlight bar, when it's moved again it scans 
the entire mailspool again. This is laggy on a 100MBit connection.

Right now I don't know if the old mutt to new mutt is the cause or if there's
been a change that they at the mail hosting have done which has occurred
at the same time as mutt v1 -> mutt v2. It might not be an issue with
mutt at all.

Maybe this isn't the ideal way to have mutt and imap? Some setups have 
an imap cache running locally. Is this better than running imaps access
from .muttrc ?

-- 
J.
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