Re: [Evolution] Re: [Evolution-hackers] Weekly Feature Request Summary (12/6)

[NotZed <notzed helixcode com>]

No not really, locking is one thing, the summary is another.  It seriously
will not work.

> > > I think people mean have the mail added to the message-list when it's arrived,
> > > not at the end of everything. I'm not sure how useful this would be, because
> > > you can't do anything with the mails till they've all downloaded (unlike Outlook
> > > where you can still read emails as they're downloading)
> >
> > Ahh ok, yes that would be nice.
> >
> > Maybe when/if we get mt done, it would be possible.  Certainly the
> > message-list stuff can mostly handle incremental updates like this
> > ok now (only inserts on a big thread-view are slow, and even then
> > its got to be a big list).
>
>   I think we can do this without MT.  We can just have an external
> process downloading mail and reporting new messages back to the main
> evolution-mail process.
>
>   Actually, now that we have some kind of locking support in Camel,
> maybe it could just append messages to the mailboxes with locking and
> evolution-mail would pick them up automatically?
>
>   I think this is a very worthwhile feature to have for 1.0.
> Downloading mail is such a pain, especially over a modem...
>
> -- 
> Ettore
>
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