Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.2RC1 report

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 14:46, Lonnie Borntreger wrote:
> On Sun, 2002-11-03 at 13:03, fejj peabody ximian com wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 03, 2002 at 02:06:20PM +0100, arthur.chereau wrote:
> > > - With imap folders containing lots of mails, it still takes some
> > > time (1 minute for some folders) before one can see the mail list
> > > the first time the folder is opened after evolution is started
> > > (evolution says "Opening folder ..."). I don't see this
> > > problem with other MUA. I thought the "faster indexer" would solve
> > > that, but it didn't.
> >
> > imap folder loading is roughly 3x times as fast as it was in 1.0.8 and
> > it can't get much (if any) faster. There's a certain amount of network
> > traffic that we *must* do, and that is what is causing the slowness
> > (well, most of it - etable rendering is the other).
>
> Would it be possible to make the imap access to not operate in a
> "blocking" fashion.  For example, now if I happen to select a message
> for viewing while the imap "checking for mail" access is occuring, it
> will not show the message contents until the imap access is complete. 
> This is also true of initial folder viewing.  While it would not speed
> up the imap access, it would provide a "feel" of faster response.
>
> Just wondering....

it *is* done in another thread :-)

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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