On Wed, 2005-07-06 at 10:31 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > 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.
Um, ok. Looks like I got confused when reading about "whole-headers" and "Fetching headers". -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson, LA USA PGP Key ID 8834C06B I prefer encrypted mail. "Don't be so open minded that your brains fall out." s. keeling _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
