On Wed, Apr 09, 2014 at 11:29:26AM +0300, Andrei POPESCU wrote: > On Ma, 08 apr 14, 22:47:05, Kumar Appaiah wrote: > > > > Of late, I've observed that folders with over 1000 messages seem quite > > slow to respond (order of 3-4 seconds), which wasn't really happening > > in the old days when I was using mboxes. > > I get at most 2-3 seconds with 12000+ messages Maildirs :) > > Following settings might help: > > # This speeds up mutt especially with large folders > set header_cache=~/.cache/mutt/header/ > unset header_cache_compress > unset maildir_header_cache_verify > set message_cachedir=~/.cache/mutt/message/ > set read_inc=500 > > More details about them in muttrc(5). > > > I prefer Maildir since I can use notmuch to index my mails easily. > > Yep.
You are correct. This helped alleviate the delay significantly! I'll try to play around more to check things out, but it looks like this is what I was missing. Thanks! Kumar -- On the Internet, no one knows you're using Windows NT -- Submitted by Ramiro Estrugo, restr...@fateware.com -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: https://lists.debian.org/20140409113212.GA6452@odessa