[Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Weekly Feature Request Summary (12/6)

[zucchi zedzone mmc com au]

> > >     - Re-index mail continuously as it arrives rather than just after
> > >     everything has been downloaded. This would be especially helpful when
> > >     someone with a slow connection receives a lot of mail.
> >
> > Well, it already does this (and always has).  Each message is indexed
> > immediately upon being added to a folder, and never again.  The next
> > release I think will have noticable performance improvements
> > in that area.
>
> I think people mean have the mail added to the message-list when it's arrived,
> not at the end of everything. I'm not sure how useful this would be, because
> you can't do anything with the mails till they've all downloaded (unlike Outlook
> where you can still read emails as they're downloading)

Ahh ok, yes that would be nice.

Maybe when/if we get mt done, it would be possible.  Certainly the
message-list stuff can mostly handle incremental updates like this
ok now (only inserts on a big thread-view are slow, and even then
its got to be a big list).