Re: [Evolution] Do messages get expunged one at a time from POP3 servers?

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> Is there support for POP3 message deletion within a range?

Nope. POP sucks. Use IMAP. It's great. Rah rah rah.

> I just downloaded 1602 messages and the ISP server expunge process
> took quite a while.  It looks like each message is expunged one at a
> time?

Ah, this is partially fixable if you have a modern POP server. There's
an extension called PIPELINING that lets you send commands without
waiting for the responses, so you can at least do "DELE 1, DELE 2, DELE
3" and wait for "+OK, +OK, +OK" rather than "DELE 1, wait for +OK, DELE
2, wait for +OK, DELE 3, wait for +OK", which will speed things up a
bit. There's a bug about this in bugzilla. (Search for PIPELINING in the
summary.)

But really, POP sucks. Use IMAP. :)

-- Dan