Re: [Evolution] Wish: Uncached IMAP folders

[Ron Johnson <ron l johnson cox net>]

On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:57 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote:
> > > > 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
>
> No, that's neither STATUS nor LIST. That's FETCH, and it's a regression

I know.  It's example, though, of the "(impressive) amount of 
traffic" between the IMAP server and Evo.

> since Evolution 2.2. It's fetching the flags and the headers for every
> mail in every folder. Even if you were to prune your cache, it'd refetch
> them every time it checks for new mail.
>
> We _used_ to just use STATUS, and it took about three lines of traffic
> to check how many mails were in folders like your history subfolders. In
> Evo 2.6 (or maybe 2.4) the code was changed and now it re-fetches the
[snip]
> folders won't get updated either though. The real fix is to start using
> STATUS again for checking mail folders.

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