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Re: mutt weirdness



* dman <dsh8290@rit.edu> spake thus:
> On Tue, Jan 22, 2002 at 10:32:19PM +0000, Stig Brautaset wrote:
> | Hi list, 
> | 
> | I am having trouble with mutt again. I got tired of having to wait for
> | so long for mutt to open one of my mailing list folders,
> 
> Not the answer you were looking for, but I found that maildir does
> wonders for this!  (in addition to other benefits such as locating a
> message with grep :-))

I tried that, and found it even slower[1], in addition to a loss of
certain features such as automatically detecting new messages in the
folder while the folder is open (well, it does work, but it is
horrendously slow).

[1] -- Maybe you are running ReiserFS? I am running ext3.

Stig

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