On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 21:58, Antony Stubbs wrote: > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:52, guenther wrote: > > Anthony, you snipped the part, where I agreed with you (and some other > > hackers) that an option to force confirmation of moving folders (or even > > mails) would be a good idea. > > > > It can prevent unintended heavy loads. Think of moving a local archive > > folder to the IMAP server on the other end of a slow connection... > > > > > > > Perhaps only > > > pop-up when there's over a certain number of emails within the folder? > > > say 10? > > > > Personally I would tend to raise that number to about 100 or limit it by > > size instead of count, but that is only a feeling. This sounds like a > > very good idea to me, though. > > I get the feeling that when you move a folder, evolution copies each > mail individually and the deletes the original. Is this correct? Is the > IMAP "standard" capable of sending commands like the client sending > "Move folder foo into folder bar" and have the entire move done on > server-side? Obviously this would be much more efficient - but I'm > guessing IMAP can't do that?
Evolution uses the RENAME IMAP command when moving IMAP folders to a new location within the same IMAP Store, however... if one was to move a folder not belonging to that IMAP Store into that IMAP Store (or a folder in that IMAP Store out of that IMAP Store), then we must copy messages individually. Jeff -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
