Re: [Evolution] Downloading mail from multiple accounts

[Greg Macek <it-guy mrichi com>]

That's what I've done in the past. Thanks for the reply. 

On Thu, 2002-08-29 at 14:31, Peter Williams wrote:
> 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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