[Alpine-info] Trivia trick on big folders

[D. Hugh Redelmeier via Alpine-info]

> From: Carlos E. R. via Alpine-info <alpine-info at u.washington.edu>



> When displaying this account folder, which is big, if I try to sort by threads

> (K-D), the operation takes too long and Alpine asks several times if I want to

> kill it.


Thanks for the tip.  I appreciate learning from others.

I'm guessing that your Alpine configuration is using IMAP.

I don't seem to have this problem.  My Alpine is using /var/spool/mail and 
~/mail/... on Linux.

This may be a rare configuration: I'm running a mail server on the same 
machine.  It's the way I've used MUAs for 50 years (starting with 
UNIX's /bin/mail). One could do this with fetchmail (or getmail?) to copy 
messages from IMAP to the local machine.