Re: folder rescanning is painful

[Peter Bloomfield <PeterBloomfield bellsouth net>]

On 05/24/2004 03:43:29 PM, Kacper Wysocki wrote:
> Hi again,
>
> I've got a question that has been addressed before, though I do  
> not remember any posted solution:
>
> Whenever the mailbox list is modified, either by adding or  
> deleting a local mailbox, or when accessing an imap folder with  
> many subfolders, balsa (both HEAD and 2-0) decides to re-open  
> all other mailboxes(even those that weren't open in the fist  
> place). This might be fine if you have, say, 4-5 relatively  
> small mailboxes, but gets plain painful when dealing with many  
> boxen, some of them in excess of 5000 messages.
>
> So, I was wondering: Are there any plans in motion for getting  
> rid of this "feature"?

Funny you should mention that...we've been looking at some  
changes (to cvs HEAD) for easing that situation.  I have a large  
experimental patch, which I've just posted on Bugzilla  
(http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=143092), that you're  
welcome to try out.  I've been using the patched tree for a few  
days, so it probably won't eat your whole machine, but as always  
you'd be wise to back up your folder tree before trying it...

> Why is this happening, anyway?

Balsa has, in the past, used an internal folder tree for  
additions and modifications, rebuilding the display when changes  
are complete, but destroying some internal data in the process.   
That required reopening all mailboxes.  The new version uses the  
display as its definitive folder tree, and just modifies it on  
the fly.  Doing so doesn't seem to raise any serious issues, even  
in a threaded build.

Peter