On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:41:14PM -0700, Russell Miller wrote:
>
> On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > In the context of the OP, when mutt tries to deal with a message (e.g.,
> > deleting, moving to a folder), it can be boatloads faster, since
> > handling the message works on a small file which contains just that
> > message. Deleting a message from an mbox mailbox, for example, requires
> > rewriting the entire changed mbox file to disk (minus the deleted message).
> > Deleting a message from a Maildir mailbox is just removing one file from
> > a directory.
>
Time spent with mutt searching a directory can be drastically cut by using
caching. See my old page,
http://home.roadrunner.com/~computertaijutsu/mutt.html#IMAP
Even if not using IMAP, using a $HOME/.mutt_cache can greatly speed things
up.
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