Re: [Evolution-hackers] Mailer behavior with slow connections.

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

It's mainly because of threading and locking and scheduling.

Its too complicated to explain in an email.  Look at the source-code (this is the hackers list afterall), or file a bug I suppose.


On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 14:04 -0400, Nat Friedman wrote:
> Hi guys,
>
> This week, for the first time in years, I've been using a modem to
> access the Internet.  And I've noticed a few behaviors in Evolution's
> mailer that were pretty annoying in the presence of a slow connection.
>
> It seems that whenever certain mail operations are underway -- like
> scanning IMAP folders for new messages, expunging messages from IMAP
> folders, or syncing remote IMAP mail locally, to name three -- many
> other mail operations block on the completion of the (seemingly
> unrelated) ongoing network operation.
>
> Examples of operations that blocked for me include:
>
>         1) Switching from my IMAP folder to a local folder, so that I
>         can read local mail while I wait for my IMAP folder to update.
>         This blocks until the IMAP folder update is complete.
>         
>         2) Switching from an IMAP messages which is not yet downloaded
>         and locally sync'd to once which I know for sure has been
>         downloaded and locally sync'd, so I can reread it and perhaps
>         reply to it.
>         
>         3) Closing Evolution.
>
> There might have been others, but these were the ones that stuck out the
> most.
>
> Is there a design reason for this behavior, or is it just a bug?
>
> Thanks,
> Nat
>
>
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