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Mutt's performance when reading mailboxes can be improved in two ways:
For remote folders (IMAP and POP) as well as folders using -one-file-per message storage (Maildir and MH), mutt's +one-file-per message storage (Maildir and MH), Mutt's performance can be greatly improved using -header caching. -Using a single database per folder may further increase -performance. +header caching. +using a single database per folder.
-Mutt provides the $read_inc -and $write_inc +Mutt provides the $read_inc +and $write_inc variables to specify at which rate to update progress -counters. If these values are too low, mutt may spend more +counters. If these values are too low, Mutt may spend more time on updating the progress counter than it spends on actually reading/writing folders.
For example, when opening a maildir folder with a few thousand messages, the default value for -$read_inc +$read_inc may be too low. It can be tuned on on a folder-basis using -folder-hooks: +folder-hooks:
# use very high $read_inc to speed up reading hcache'd maildirs folder-hook . 'set read_inc=1000' @@ -55,18 +58,18 @@ even per-folder settings of the increment variables may not be desirable as they produce either too few or too much progress updates. Thus, Mutt allows to limit the number of progress updates per second it'll actually send to the terminal using the -$time_inc variable.
+$time_inc variable.
Reading messages from remote folders such as IMAP an POP can be -slow especially for large mailboxes since mutt only caches a very +slow especially for large mailboxes since Mutt only caches a very limited number of recently viewed messages (usually 10) per session (so that it will be gone for the next session.)
To improve performance and permanently cache whole messages, -please refer to mutt's so-called -body caching for details. -
+please refer to Mutt's so-called +body caching for details. +
When searching mailboxes either via a search or a limit action, for -some patterns mutt distinguishes between regular expression and string +some patterns Mutt distinguishes between regular expression and string searches. For regular expressions, patterns are prefixed with âËâ and with â=â for string searches.
@@ -82,7 +85,7 @@ address via =Luser@ instead of
ËLuser@. This is especially true for searching
message bodies since a larger amount of input has to be searched.
-Please note that string search is an exact case-sensitive search -while a regular expression search with only lower-case letters performs -a case-insensitive search. -