Re: [Evolution] Wish: Uncached IMAP folders

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 15:38 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 13:52 +0100, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:39 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > [Replying to own post]
> > > >
> > > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 08:08 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > > > Link the cache folders you don't want to /dev/null? (I haven't tried
> > > > > this and don't know about any possible side-effects).
> > > >
> > > > This makes no sense e.g. you might want to cache a subfolder but not its
> > > > parent, or cache headers but not bodies, etc. etc. In my defense I
> > > > haven't had my morning tea yet :-)
> > >
> > > Also it doesn't stop Evo from going of and getting things, it just
> > > doesn't store it anywhere.
> > >
> > > For me, I would like a way of selectively marking folders for checking
> > > for new mail - mail only appears in some of my folders (mainly as a
> > > result of server side filtering), the vast majority either get populated
> > > as a result of Evo filters, or things get put there manually.  At the
> > > moment Evo takes ages to sort itself out when I first start it because
> > > it goes through all my subscribed folders looking for new mail - I don't
> > > want to untick the 'Check for new messages in all folders' because there
> > > are some folders that I want to check - I don't want to unsubscribe the
> > > folders because I use the (unchanging) information in them.
> >
> > Do you use Maildir-based IMAP?
>
> No.  Or at least not yet - it's on the ToDo list.  Why?  

  $ dir Maildir/.Lists.Evo-user/
  total 1608
  drwx-w----  6 me me   4096 Sep 23  2005 ./
  drwx-w---- 64 me me   4096 Apr 12 13:06 ../
  -rw-rw-r--  1 me me     17 Apr 17  2004 courierimapacl
  drwx-w----  2 me me   4096 Mar 28 08:47 courierimapkeywords/
  -rw-r--r--  1 me me 755612 Apr 19 15:03 courierimapuiddb
  drwx-w----  2 me me 856064 Apr 19 15:03 cur/
  -rw--w----  1 me me      0 Apr 17  2004 maildirfolder
  drwx-w----  2 me me   4096 Apr 19 15:03 new/
  drwx-w----  2 me me   4096 Apr 19 16:23 tmp/

In Maildir storage, new emails are dropped in new/, and "already
read" emails are in cur/.  So, even if there are 10,000,000 records
in cur/, it's really easy to read thru the 100 records in new/.

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