Subject: Deletes appear slower in 3.90?

From: James Dryfoos <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 09:52:42 -0400

I often get a lot of mail that I know I can delete by just looking at the 
subjects.  I am used to just pressing D while in index mode.  Sometimes I 
will just hold the D key to repetitively delete many messages in a row.
I have noticed that when I do this in 3.90 it is much slower than when I 
did this in 3.89.  Has something changed?  It is not a real problem, just 
a little more of a nuisance.

Thanks for the great work.  3.90 is great!

  -- Jim

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From: [email-masked] (Dave Pascoe)
Date: 30 Aug 1994 15:04:39 GMT

James Dryfoos ([email-masked]) wrote:
: I often get a lot of mail that I know I can delete by just looking at the 
: subjects.  I am used to just pressing D while in index mode.  Sometimes I 
: will just hold the D key to repetitively delete many messages in a row.
: I have noticed that when I do this in 3.90 it is much slower than when I 
: did this in 3.89.  Has something changed?  It is not a real problem, just 
: a little more of a nuisance.

I've noticed the same thing....especially in folders other than INBOX,
which are all on the local disk as opposed to the NFS-mounted
/var/spool/mail.

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Dave Pascoe                  E-mail: [email-masked]

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From: [email-masked] (Gunther Anderson)
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:22:27 GMT

Well, it depends on how many messages you have to delete.  For instance, 
going in and cleaning out a sent-mail folder can take a _real_ long time 
if you have to wait a full second for each message.  That, incidentally, 
is what I think the problem may be.  There is a default 1-second sleep 
after each status message is printed, and I think message deletions count 
as status messages.  Is there a way to flag those messages as not worthy 
of a full-second delay?

Gunther Anderson

p.s. I know, I know, where was that suggestion during the beta phase...

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From: James Dryfoos <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 94 13:09:09 -0400

On Tue, 30 Aug 1994, Gunther Anderson wrote:

> Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 15:22:27 GMT
> From: Gunther Anderson <[email-masked]>
> To: [email-masked]
> Subject: Re: Deletes appear slower in 3.90?
> 

I would not mind if I could easily select each message to be deleted and 
then delete them.  The problem is, pressing ;c for each message is more 
work than just pressing d for each.  Is it possible to get a one key 
select current message?  Even if this were possible, will it run into 
same problem as above?

  -- Jim

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From: "Sean Allen" <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 30 Aug 1994 13:30:30 -0400 (EDT)

Could it also be that these msgs are actually deleted as you
    press the 'D' key?  I have noticed the same effect, but have
    switched to using the aggregate commands to take out a whole lump
    of msgs.  This method does not always work, since not all
    messages have something in common...

    On the one second default delay,  I would personally rather
    search the .pine-debugX files for any msgs that I miss, than wait
    for a second each.  This is truly a nit, just getting me 0.02
    in...  BTW - like the developers havent heard it enough -- Great
    Job!

> which are all on the local disk as opposed to the NFS-mounted

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