[wellylug] debian imap

michael at diaspora.gen.nz michael at diaspora.gen.nz
Wed Jun 23 19:27:05 NZST 2004


>Something I should have noted earlier: never try using IMAP to access
>3.5Gb of e-mail using Mutt.  It insists on downloading all the
>messages in a folder.  It takes a LONG time.  I don't know about OE --
>hopefully it's smarter.

It depends on the IMAP server.  cyrus IMAP pre-caches the headers for a
mailbox, in exactly the fashion that Mutt requests; so it's relatively
fast.  Exchange, on the other hand, does not, to my cost.
    -- michael.




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