Re: A viable mutt

[Steve Lamb <grey@dmiyu.org>]

Johann Spies wrote:
> My experience is not that it is 'horribly slow and
> inefficient'. Are you sure that it is not a network-related slowness? 

    Of course it is, the fact that mutt is using the network to
download-then-upload the messages is the entire problem!  Which is going to be
faster:

A: Downloading 2000 messages totaling 10Mb over a 300kps connection then
upload them to the Trash folder on a 35kps upload.

B: Tell the server, "copy these 2000 messages to the Trash folder using the
local system BUS oh, and mark them as deleted, thanks."

    Local system BUS > pretty much any broadband connection there is.

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

    Yeah, not the same, not even close.