On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 09:33 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:09 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 11:37 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > > > A huge slowness for Evo IMAP is the fact that it has to ask for > > > > whole-headers in order to support vfoldering on mailing-lists, > > > > attachment icons in the message-list, etc. > > > > > > This is only 'much faster' if the server caches this info - some do not, > > > and infact have to create the info from the header anyway. Fetching > > > headers isn't really the problem with evo's imap - this is only done > > > once. > > > > true... but it seems many do cache this info. Even GroupWise caches it > > now I think :) > > Evo already does cache-but-not-cache them in: > ~/.evolution/mail/imap/<account>/folders/INBOX > > It looks like only new headers need to be fetched each time.
we were talking about server caching of the ENVELOPE data such that responses were fast. If the server has to convert messages from their internal data format into MIME and then parse them to extract the headers to build the ENVELOPE response each time ,then it might actually be faster to get the full header block. Jeff _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
