Re: [Geary] IMAP / gmail performance?

[Michael Gratton <mike vee net>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 5:02 PM, Kristian Rink <kawazu428 gmail com> 
wrote:
> The last of these symptoms is something I kind of managed to track 
> down
> using sql and network logging: Our corporate IMAP server is pretty
> large (in terms of mail spool size and in terms of available IMAP
> folders for different internal purposes). A load of messages in there
> contain *large* attachments (documents between 5 and 50 megabytes of
> size). Generally, mail traffic in most of these folders is extremely
> high during daytime. Looking at the logs, it seems geary generally 
> gets
> extremely busy periodically iterating across all these folders and
> permanently synchronizing / downloading new messages.

Hmm, so are most of these folders in a shared/public IMAP namespace, 
that you know of? I.e. folders not in your own personal account? If so, 
do you need access to them from Geary?

> Unfortunately I haven't found any way to influence this behaviour.
> Expectation would be to simply tell the IMAP client to please ignore
> certain folders or subfolder hierarchies in the IMAP tree but I
> couldn't figure out how to do that (if it's possible with geary after
> all...).

This is usually what IMAP mailbox subscriptions are for, and which 
would likely take care of this for you — assuming you don't actually 
want to subscribe to those folders. Currently, Geary doesn't pay 
attention to that however: 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=713449>

Not storing attachments in the database 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714061> and not downloading 
attachments by default 
<https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=714094> might also help.

//Mike

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