Re: [Evolution] IMAP speed

[Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>]

Well, first, although the IMAP on 1.2 is supposed to be faster than
1.08, several of us have said that IMAP is actually slower.  Seems like
this information would interest Ximian but on this list, anyway, it
doesn't seem to be making much of an impression.

Second, if a persistent tcp connection causes evolution to hang, then
maybe evolution shouldn't be using one.

On reading your response, my first thought was, "Boy, linux must be
lame," because on Windows, nothing hangs when you lose your PPP -- not
outlook, not mozilla, not anything as far as I know.  But then I fired
up mozilla on linux and found that it too survives having the modem
unplugged: Read IMAP mail, unplug the modem, plug it back in again,
reconnect, and mozilla is fine; for the same sequence, evolution hangs.

So what does mozilla use that works better than a persistent tcp
connection and should evolution be using that instead?

Scott

On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 12:45, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Mon, 2002-11-18 at 13:50, Scott Otterson wrote:
> > Yeah, I'd have to agree.  IMAP is _much_ slower -- takes way longer to
> > start up for the first time and if you disconnect, it's way slower to
> > reconnect.
> >
> > The connection also hangs if my PPP dialup goes down -- I have to run
> > killev before it can see email again.  This is the only network app I
> > have that hangs when I loose PPP.
>
> I'm guessing you don't run any other apps that use a persistent tcp
> connection then :-)
>
> fyi I am almost always connected to remote sites with ssh and irc, etc
> and so when my internet connection drops, all those apps hang just as
> long as Evolution does.
>
> Jeff
>
> PS: No, netscape/mozilla do not hold persistent tcp connections.
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Scott Otterson <scotto u washington edu>