Re: [Evolution] Filtering folders other than INBOX

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

On Fri, 2004-08-13 at 10:38 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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).

Well a few things can make it do more work:
- vfolders
- junk filtering on all folders

I think thats all.  Some servers don't run very fast just doing status either.

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Michael Zucchi <notzed ximian com>

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