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. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA "Diplomats were invented simply to waste time." David Lloyd George, British prime minister _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
