From: Stefan Schmiedl Date: 2004-12-07T08:47:33+09:00 Subject: Re: SOT gmail invites On Mon, 6 Dec 2004 21:43:47 +0900, Michal 'hramrach' Suchanek wrote: > My mutt setup uses crm114 and contains hundreds of megabytes of mail. > It makes it qute non-portable. It must be at the source of the mail, so > I have to connect through ssh which has poor performance over slower > connection. Also ssh is unfortunately not the standard equipment yet > (it is on everything but Windows). When I encounter a "new" windows box, I usually do the following dance, before anybody can stop me: - install gvim - install ruby - install putty putty (ssh client for win) is the one search where google's "I feel lucky" button reliably works for me: search for "putty download" > > Yet another problem with mutt is that it is not multithreaded (or does > not use synchronization properly) so it is really slow when operating on > mailboxes containing ~25k messages which do receive new mail. What can you do with a mailbox (flat folder) with 25k messages except store them? On my quest for simplicity, I've rigorously unsubscribed from mailing lists that I've been "saving for later", as I never looked at them anyways. regards, s.