[H-GEN] Prob with Pine

Martin Pool mbp at wistful.humbug.org.au
Thu Jul 2 11:31:02 EDT 1998


On Thu, Jul 02, 1998 at 09:14:05AM +1000, Michael wrote:
> Imm having a problem with pine 3.96, my inbox has around 1,947 messages in
> it ( i know its large but its all from unix mail lists so i have a large
> collection of questions & lots of awnsers ;) but anyway pine will
> sometimes take a LONG > 1-2 minutes to open a message or move through a
> message, and quitting pine can take as long as 5 minutes, i take it its
> because of the size of the inbox, but mutt nor elm has this problem is
> there a prob with pine 3.96 or just pine in general?

Yeah, pine is a bit slow on big mailboxes.  I imagine mh would be
about the fastest MUA, since it does almost everything by doing
nothing much.

> I sit and wait, in a state of grace.  I am the black angel of death, God
> has given me this title.  The time of purification is at hand.

He's _not_ the messiah!  He's just...

--
Martin




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