Re: [Evolution] IMAP speed

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:24, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:15, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 11:08, Ettore Perazzoli wrote:
> > > > > Yes, IMAP in 1.2 may be considerably faster for Courier IMAPd.
> > > >
> > > > it's faster for presumably every server *except* uw.imapd.
> > >
> > > Yeah, but still, do we have any idea why uw.imapd would be slower?
> >
> > uw.imapd re-parses the mbox (it uses mbox as the backend) everytime it
> > does anything with the folder. That's just plain slow (and inefficient
> > obviously).
>
> Understood.  But then, why would uw.imapd be faster with Evolution
> 1.0.x?

probably because it doesn't parse the headers when we requested the full
header block in 1.0.8, but since we ask for all headers *except*
Received, apparently it stumbles quite a bit more than it did for
1.0.8's query.

that's just a guess.

Jeff

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Jeffrey Stedfast
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