Re: [Evolution] Downloading mail from multiple accounts

[Peter Williams <peterw ximian com>]

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 15:09, Greg Macek wrote:
> As Evolution is now (1.0.8 for me), when I choose to download my mail,
> it attempts to grab all mail from every enabled account at once (4
> accounts). While for the most part this isn't a huge deal because I'm
> usually on some high-speed Internet connection, my concern is that while
> I'm on dial-up, this method of simultaneously fetching mail could bog
> down a 56K dialup session, esp. if there is a lot of mail. Are there any
> plans or foreseen need to serialize the mail download process? It would
> seem that Evolution would have less to do at once, but maybe that
> doesn't matter. :-) 

I don't think we'd serialize the mail fetching, as most of the time it
wouldn't even really help. If you're having bandwidth problems, I
suppose you could try temporarily disabling some of your accounts.

Peter

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