[Wolves] Cygwin/X

[David Goodwin]

Aquarius wrote:
> David Goodwin spoo'd forth:
> 
>>>It's really slow with mutt, because mutt doesn't cache IMAP folders (I
>>>think).
>>
>>Probably too many messages, and you're not using Maildir.
> 
> 
> Probably. But whose fault is that? Works fine when doing local parsing.
> So network connections to localhost are too slow...


Isn't that quite hard - like there is no actual physical device for lo.

By local parsing I guess you mean grep ?

I believe many email clients (E.g. Evolution) build their own database 
of email messages from the spool file to increase speed etc. Mutt 
doesn't do this afaik.

David.