Re: [Evolution] Wish: Uncached IMAP folders

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:23 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 06:57 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 07:46 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2006-04-19 at 16:26 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > 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]
[snip]
> > > > 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/.
> > >
> > > I can't see how this answers the OP's requirement. The problem is that
> > > for Evo to discover new mail it has to interrogate the IMAP server (no
> > > matter what its mailstore format is), and the only options currently are
> > > to ask about INBOX or about everything. INBOX doesn't contain all new
> > > mail because of server-side filters, and asking about everything is slow
> > > if one has lots of folders, because AFAIK the only way to do it is by
> > > iterating an IMAP protocol command (STATUS I think) over all the
> > > folders, sending the query and waiting for the response each time.
> > > That's why it would be nice to be able to do it only for folders where
> > > one there might be new messages.
> >
> > And STATUS means "tell me about *all* emails?  If so, bummer.
>
> Turns out it's not STATUS but LIST, but in any case you can see the
> (impressive) amount of traffic generated by running with
> CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1.

received: * 12147 FETCH (UID 12166 FLAGS (\Seen))^M
received: * 12148 FETCH (UID 12167 FLAGS (\Seen))^M
received: * 12149 FETCH (UID 12168 FLAGS (\Seen))^M
received: * 12150 FETCH (UID 12174 FLAGS (\Seen))^M
received: A00049 OK FETCH completed.^M

Yes, I see now.

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