Re: [PATCH 0/1] Enabling header caching in mutt

[Efraim Flashner]

On Sun, Mar 20, 2016 at 10:47:04PM -0400, Leo Famulari wrote:
> This patch builds mutt with support for header caching so that large
> mailboxes can be opened quickly.
> 
> Without the header cache, each message's headers are processed before
> the mailbox can be used. For large mailboxes (>10000 messages), this can
> take minutes.
> 
> To use the header cache, users must enable it in their configuration.
> 
> It's following up on this:
> http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/help-guix/2016-03/msg00055.html
> 
> I checked, and bdb and gdbm are already both in mutt's build-time
> dependency graph (openldap refers to bdb and python refers to gdbm).
> 
> I've chosen gdbm for it's small size and because it's a GNU project. If
> anyone says they prefer another database, then let's talk!
> 

I've just tried this out on my machine. At first I didn't see any
change, but then I added `set header_cache = ~/.cache/mutt/` to my
.muttrc and I was blown away by the difference.

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