Re: [Evolution] IMAP woes

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj helixcode com>]

I believe that this is mostly a MessageList bug, but yeah - it's VERY
annoying.

Proposed fix: be able to have the message list query for *new* and
*removed* message uids rather than requesting the entire thing again and
then rebuilding the list from scratch. This is a MAJOR performace killer. I
dunno about you, but I find that downloading the headers from IMAP takes
around the same or less time than it takes the message list to be created
and displayed. This NEEDs to be fixed.

I'm not an expert on ETable so I dunno where the issues are, but even
having to reload from a fresh uid list shouldn't take this long. Heck, even
Spruce loads faster using a CList!

Jeff

On Fri, 13 Oct 2000, Joe Shaw wrote:
> Date: Fri, 13 Oct 2000 14:36:39 -0400 (EDT)
> To: evolution helixcode com, evolution-hackers helixcode com
> From: Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com>
> Sender: evolution-admin helixcode com
> Subject: [Evolution] IMAP woes
>
> Hey gang, Ettore asked me to send this here.
>
> I've been having usability issues with IMAP, particularly on large
> mailboxes. My main mailbox that I use for testing has nearly 15000
> messages, and is about 63 megs in size. When using IMAP, everytime I get
> new mail in that box (which is pretty frequent), Evolution insists on
> rebuilding my message view, which takes an unbearably long time, and
> takes
> me away fromt he message I'm viewing. My IMAP experiences usually consist
> of me getting the message view built, clicking on a message, waiting for
> it to download and display, having it immediately rebuild the message
> view, and take me back to the original message. VERY annoying. This
> happens too for smaller mailboxes, although it takes less time to rebuild
> the message view so it's a little more usable. I don't have these issues
> (at least performance-wise) with a local store of comparable
> size. Ideally, evolution would lazily rebuild the message
> view. Regardless, these performance issues have been a barrier to me
> using
> it as my everyday email client.
>
> Thanks,
> Joe
>
>
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