On Sun, Apr 13, 2014 at 10:41:14PM -0700, Russell Miller wrote: > > On Apr 13, 2014, at 10:25 PM, Keith Keller <kkeller at wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> 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. -- Scott Robbins PGP keyID EB3467D6 ( 1B48 077D 66F6 9DB0 FDC2 A409 FA54 EB34 67D6 ) gpg --keyserver pgp.mit.edu --recv-keys EB3467D6