Re: What am I missing without mutt?

[Joe <joem@joeshome.me.uk>]

On 12:28 Wed 06 Feb     , Steve Lamb wrote:
> 
>     The main problem that I saw is that on delete operations it does
> something that is insanely slower than TBird.  For example, on TBird I
> can mark 25 messages as deleted, hit delete, and within about a second
> they are in the trash folder.
> 
>     In mutt (as of, say, 4 months ago when I last tried) it will copy then
> delete message 1... then copy and delete message 2... then copy and
> delete message 3...  Taking about 1/2 second each.  So on a 25 message
> operation mutt will take 12 seconds to do what TBird does in no more
> than 2.  Even worse is that is without network lag as the mutt operation
> was carried out on the server itself.
> 

So why are you doing it differently in Mutt than in TBird? Jut hit 't'
on each message you want deleted then use tag-prefix to delete them all
 ';' applies the next command to all tagged messages so you hit ';'
  then 'd'. Simple.

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Regards, Joe