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Re: maximum nuber of messages in mutt?



Ian Balchin <inksi@imaginet.co.za> writes:

> Hi,
> 
> My debian-list folder in mutt has over 5000 messages in it despite
> some weeding out.  Pretty soon I shall have to go and make a coffee
> while waiting for it to open.

More powerful mail readers (/me ducks) cache messages much more
efficiently than mutt.

Emacs gnus, for example, only fetches/displays unread messages unless
you tell it otherwise, which makes it far faster to open and read
folders.

-- 
Brian Nelson <nelson@bignachos.com>



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