[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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