Re: Slow startup with remote IMAP folder

[Jules Bean <jules jellybean co uk>]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2001 at 09:56:48AM -0400, Peter Bloomfield wrote:
> I've been frustrated by the same problem.  Scanning in a separate 
> thread is presumably problematic because of locking mutt.  I've 

I think that's an issue which has to be addressed to make balsa a
useful imap client over slow links...

> experimented both with delayed/partial scanning and with speeding up 
> scanning by issuing multiple LIST/LSUB commands.  With high network 
> latency but decent throughput, the latter has given me up to three 
> times faster loading.  The former of course is very fast, but not 
> entirely satisfactory: you can drag a message to a mailbox only if it's 
> been found, etc.

I'm sorry I haven't had time to try your patch; it did look cool!

Jules