Re: [Evolution] Feature Requests

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

On 07 Dec 2000 02:52:39 -0600, Matt Knopp wrote:
> #1
> Is there any plan to support disconnected imap? I think thats the right 
> term for it.  The concept is that evolution would download all the mail 
> in a given imap folder and store it locally. Then periodically the local
> and remote folder get synced up so that they are consistent.  
>
> The advantage being that imap people get to read their mail if the network 
> goes away, as well as getting better performance when reading/sorting mail.

This has been in the works for a while now... it's just not yet done :-)
Dan Winship is the mastermind behind it's implementation, so he can
probably comment better on this.

> #2 
> Currently (0.6), when I move from message to message in an imap folder, 
> evolution immediately tries to fetch the message.  If I'm navigating by 
> keyboard and trying to get say, 10 messages down -- this is sorta painful. 
> Would it be possible to add a thresh-hold so that the focus needs to be 
> on a message for a few ms before evolution tries to fetch the message from
> the server.


This has been discussed but I dunno what we plan to do about it. Dan?

Jeff