Re: slow loading attachments

>I hate that people now blithely email messages that have multi-Mb 
>attachments. This is facilitated by clients' ability to efficiently 
>download them. But my 2.7.2 exmh takes about a minute per 4Mb. Is there 
>a way to speed it up?

That seems rather slow.  Like, way slower than the Ultra Sparc I used
more than a decade ago.

It might be useful to talk about your desktop and tell us some more
particulars about your local setup.  But I have a sneaking suspicion
that your big problem is that you're using the build-in base64 decoder,
which is rather slow.  exmh can use an external base64 decoder (it
prefers that), like the one in the Metamail package, which is hard to
find now, and one other I forget about.  I bet if you tried those out
it would help you.  Also, you might want to try exmh 2.8.0.

--Ken