Mutt Basic

[Peter Garrett]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2007 at 11:25:24AM -0400, Mark Loeser wrote:
> Peter Garrett <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au> said:
> > * Now the puller:
> > 	Not exactly a puller with IMAP - we just connect to the IMAP 
> > 	server to see what is there ( think webmail without a web 
> > 	browser).You can even do this in one line something like
> > 	
> > mutt -f imaps://arthur.dent:t0w3Lm1ss!ng@mail.beeblebrox.com/INBOX
> >                     ^^^^      ^^^^
> >                    username:password 
> >                    
> >         The -f tells mutt it is looking for a file. It doesn't care if 
> >         the file is local or not. this way is a bit clumsy, and we 
> >         probably want to use TLS or something similar rather than a 
> >         plain text login. ~/.muttrc allows us to do this.
> 
> The built-in imap support can be a bit slow.  You might want to look
> into offlineimap, which will sync the remote imap server into a local
> Maildir.  I use this for my email at work and have offlineimap sync
> against our Exchange server.
> 
> http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7232

Right - thank you for the url - I saved the article :)
One speed-up I found was to enable header caching.

Create a file ~/.muttheaders  and add the line

set header_cache="~/.muttheaders"

in ~/.muttrc

The speed-up is quite noticeable.

Peter