Re: A viable mutt

[Johann Spies <jspies@sun.ac.za>]

On Wed, Aug 20, 2008 at 04:19:57PM -0700, Steve Lamb wrote:

>     One of the many faults I find with mutt is its IMAP implementation.  In
> two words, it fails.  Copying individual messages from the current folder to
> any other folder, especially trash, by downloading the message and then
> uploading it back to the server over the IMAP connection instead of issuing an
> IMAP copy operation is horribly slow and inefficient.  

I use mutt regularly with secure imap on my home network.  I handle quite a
large number of emails. I also use a Macbook with imap to the same
server on the same network and I must say I prefer mutt to the very
good Macbook Mail-program.  Sometime I even prefer mutt on the
macbook. My experience is not that it is 'horribly slow and
inefficient'. Are you sure that it is not a network-related slowness? 

To use mutt with more than one imap-account, just create a different
mutt-configuration file for each one.

Regards
Johann
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