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In message <9110112041.AA05591@info7.infosys.dpw.com.infosys> Steve Baumgarten wrote:
>
> I bet there are a lot of messages in that folder that don't have the
> magic X-VM-v5-Data header.  

You're right, that was the problem.  Building a digest didn't do it for
me, but after doing

  (let ((rest vm-message-list))
    (while rest
     (vm-stuff-attributes (car rest))
     (setq rest (cdr rest))))

computing the summary buffer only took about twelve seconds.  But parsing the
message-lists still took the same amount of time as before.  (It's still slow
enough that I'm going to continue using find-file.)

All the messages that were in that folder got there by this path: arriving 
in my inbox; having a summary generated for them; and then being copied with
vm-save-message.  I had assumed that this sequence of events would cause a
fully computed X-VM-v5-Data header to be saved, but the one that was saved
was mostly empty (none of the date/time fields filled in, for example.)

I think that before outputting a message to a file, the X-VM-v5-Data header
should be fully computed, so that a little extra time is spent at save-time
instead of potentially a lot of time later.

Actually, I'd be perfectly happy having the magic header fully computed as
soon as a message arrives in my inbox.  

	-- Jamie