Ben Winslow <r...@bluecherry.net> wrote: > On Sun, 09 Aug 2009 22:20:41 +0200 > Andrzej Adam Filip <andrzej.fi...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> Could you offer some suggestion how to fetch mailbox content over >> high RTT link (with negligible packet loss)? >> >> Currently I use IMAP+IDLE *but* it fails to use full available >> bandwidth due to high RTT and "send command wait for response" nature >> of POP3 and IMAP4 protocols. > > The entire purpose of the command tag in IMAP is to facilitate > batching or concurrent commands. See RFC3501 section 5.5. It > shouldn't be too difficult to batch requests for new messages, or even > select all the new messages in one request for a single folder.
Could you recommend tool/client program capable to use "IMAP pipelining"? -- [pl>en: Andrew] Andrzej Adam Filip : a...@onet.eu Virtue does not always demand a heavy sacrifice -- only the willingness to make it when necessary. -- Frederick Dunn