Re: CVS commit: pkgsrc/mail/mutt-devel

["Jonathan Perkin" <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost>]

* On 2012-09-06 at 23:45 BST, Antoine Reilles wrote:

> On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Jonathan Perkin 
> <jperkin%joyent.com@localhost> wrote:
> 
> > Can we look at enabling header caching by default?  It's an absolute
> > must-have if reading over IMAP.
>
> Yes, accessing imap servers without hcache is horrible.
> I don't remember when last I ran mutt without it, except for tests, and it
> is very stable (at least with the bdb backend -- I have too little
> experience of the tokyocabinet backend).
> 
> I'm not sure which backend would be best if we enable hcache by default.
> - bdb is pretty stable
> - tokyocabinet feels much faster on osx, I haven't tested seriously on
> other platforms yet.
> Do you have an opinion ?

In a very quick simple test on my laptop (2011 MBP) I see no
discernible difference between them - both take approximately 9
seconds to load the cache of a 70,000+ mail IMAP folder on startup.

Thus I'd probably go with bdb as a more known quantity.  There is also

  http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=585559

which suggests some potential issues with tokyocabinet.

In addition to enabling this, I'd also like:

 - mutt-smtp enabled by default (I see no drawback in doing so, and I
   use it :)

 - apply the xtitles patch from debian

I'm happy to do all this in one go if you approve from a MAINTAINER
point of view.

Thanks,

-- 
Jonathan Perkin  -  Joyent, Inc.  -  www.joyent.com