A Minimal Email Client

Re:A Minimal Email Client by southerntofu on Friday February 26, 2021 @06:30AM (#26273701)

Not sure why but in my case mutt + maildir is really slow. Loading a folder takes around 10s for 300 emails and slightly less than 2m with 3000.

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Re:A Minimal Email Client by dumb1224 on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:03AM (#26273947)

The trick seems to be caching mail headers, https://gitlab.com/muttmua/mutt/-/wikis/MuttGuide/Caching

Also if you change folders frequently you can put: set sleep_time=0

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Re:A Minimal Email Client by southerntofu on Friday February 26, 2021 @07:37AM (#26274148)

Thanks for the advice but i don't think caching is the problem, as i'm using a local directory. It's parsing that takes a very long time. Or does caching take parsing into account? (that's not what the caching guide says)

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Re:A Minimal Email Client by eikenberry on Friday February 26, 2021 @03:51PM (#26279717)

Something is wrong there. I can open a folder with >50k emails and it takes less than 5 seconds.

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