[plug] [OT] Gmail Opinions

[James Devenish]

In message <20040617094423.GD26977 at patrick.wattle.id.au>
on Thu, Jun 17, 2004 at 05:44:23PM +0800, Cameron Patrick wrote:
> I suppose the centralisation of Gmail could be a little unnerving
> though.

I don't know much about Gmail but can I ask...does it mean that you have
to have an international network connection working in order to be able
to check your e-mail?

> | It has got me thinking about my current mail setup tho (Cyrus IMAP on an aging 
> | Sun box). Gmail is snappier than IMAP opening a folder... Hmmmm.
> 
> That's one of my major complaints about mutt.  Even on relatively fast
> modern IDE discs, it can take the better part of a minute to open a
> large folder.  I'd love to see it be O(1) for opening a folder;
> there's no technical reason why it can't be with a little caching.

What local mailbox format are you using? Mutt would need to use a "safe"
indexing format in order to avoid problem with people or mail daemons
making manual changes to mailboxes, given that the formats it uses are
often "open" ones that people (er...me) abuse. I wonder why no one has
written indexing support.