Re: [Rant] The Endless Search for a Mail Client That Doesn't Suck

[Mark Roach <mrroach@okmaybe.com>]

On Thu, 2004-08-05 at 21:18 -0400, Joey Hess wrote:
> Brian Nelson wrote:

[...]
> > 7. It must not be dog slow.  I have big folders and I don't want to wait
> >    5 minutes to load them.
> 
> Mutt suffers from 7, but it's not a big deal if you keep the number
> of messages in a folder under control. For this I use archivemail, a nice
> external program which can handle flagged and unread mail. I move read mail
> to the archive after three days which keeps mutt under control.

Have you used the imap headercache patch for mutt? I have used this on
some large (by my standards ~= 18k emails or so, YMMV) mailboxes with
substantial performance improvements. It went from a good 5 minutes over
my cable + vpn connection to about 30 seconds. I seem to recall having
to massage the patch a bit for newer mutt versions, but it wasn't
anything too tricky.

-Mark