Re: [Evolution] Evo memory use

[David Woodhouse <dwmw2 infradead org>]

On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 00:33, Not Zed wrote:
> On Wed, 2003-02-19 at 08:20, David Woodhouse wrote:
> > Agreed. If we can do sorting server-side, we _really_ ought to make use
> > of that. 
>
> I dont see it as much use.

Bear in mind that I'm speaking of an ideal implementation here -- not
necessarily something we should try to achieve in Evolution 1.4. 

If the server can sort the mail for you (or thread -- that's just a
special case of sorting), then it means you don't have to have headers
of all the mail in the folder before you can display anything. You can
dramatically reduce network load, and improve responsiveness, _even_
with a relatively local IMAP server. When dealing with IMAP folders with
lots of as-yet uncached messages over a slow link, you're eliminating
tens of minutes of waiting before a folder index gets displayed.

That seems very useful to me.

Server-side _search_ even more so, of course.

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dwmw2