Re: [Evolution] Evolution 1.2.2 much slower than 1.0.8 in POP retrieval

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

The old version would have had to do LIST, of some sort.  Perhaps it did
UIDL as its list command, is that any faster?

If UIDL isn't supported we do a LIST + HEAD to get the headers, which is
much slower than just UIDL or just LIST.

There's a known issue that many buggy pop servers support UIDL even
though they say they dont, or at least, they dont say they do, which
they're supposed to.

CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution-mail

will dump the protocol exchanges.

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 03:41, Dan Winship wrote:
> > Is it necessary to issue the list command after the first access?
> > Shouldn't the client only fetch the messages which are subsequent to the
> > last fetched?
>
> Sure, but POP doesn't give us any way to do that. I don't know exactly
> what might have changed to make things slower for you, but I'm guessing
> that it involves having fixed bugs for people with other POP servers or
> slightly different POP usage models from you.
>
> POP wasn't designed with "leave on server" in mind, so it's never going
> to work perfectly for everyone. If you want to leave your mail on the
> server, you should really find a provider who lets you use IMAP.
>
> -- Dan
>
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