Re: [Evolution-hackers] Confirm on move folders?

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

wans;t there once case where it would do a copy instead of rename, or
did that get fixed?

On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 09:40 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:

> On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 21:58, Antony Stubbs wrote:
> > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:52, guenther wrote:
> > > Anthony, you snipped the part, where I agreed with you (and some other
> > > hackers) that an option to force confirmation of moving folders (or even
> > > mails) would be a good idea.
> > > 
> > > It can prevent unintended heavy loads. Think of moving a local archive
> > > folder to the IMAP server on the other end of a slow connection...
> > > 
> > > 
> > > > Perhaps only
> > > > pop-up when there's over a certain number of emails within the folder?
> > > > say 10?
> > > 
> > > Personally I would tend to raise that number to about 100 or limit it by
> > > size instead of count, but that is only a feeling. This sounds like a
> > > very good idea to me, though.
> > 
> > I get the feeling that when you move a folder, evolution copies each
> > mail individually and the deletes the original. Is this correct? Is the
> > IMAP "standard" capable of sending commands like the client sending
> > "Move folder foo into folder bar" and have the entire move done on
> > server-side? Obviously this would be much more efficient - but I'm
> > guessing IMAP can't do that?
> 
> Evolution uses the RENAME IMAP command when moving IMAP folders to a new
> location within the same IMAP Store, however... if one was to move a
> folder not belonging to that IMAP Store into that IMAP Store (or a
> folder in that IMAP Store out of that IMAP Store), then we must copy
> messages individually.
> 
> Jeff
> 
> -- 
> Jeffrey Stedfast
> Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc.
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