Re: [Evolution] Filtering folders other than INBOX

[Jeffrey Stedfast <fejj ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 01:04, Andrew Cowie wrote:
[snip]
> > - finding out about new messages is already unreliable at best,
> > searching all folders for them would also impact performance a lot
>
> But evo is already doing that for each IMAP folder. So how much worse
> would it be to then hook up the filter mechanism?

the current imap code is only issuing a STATUS command for the folders
to find out unread counts (which is what I presume you are referring to
here).

if we were to filter it, we'd have to SELECT the folder first, request
new message headers/flags/etc to build a summary (we'd also have to
request flags for all already known messages) and then, for each message
marked with a \Recent flag, we'd have to download the message(s) and
pass them off to the filtering code.

that should give you some idea of the performance problems...

Jeff