Hi all, I've been making progress with TB!'s IMAP and how I can maximize on it with a slow connection.
While in the UK, I got the opportunity to work with my IMAP server from a remote location. I decided to play it safe and not set any of the subscribed folders to sync automatically. Header syncs would be initiated only upon selecting the folder. The same for message body retrieval. This worked well from the UK. At work where the connection is much slower, I tried the same system and it worked yesterday pretty well with the only problem being that if something else was being done, like an IMAP folders scan to update counts, this would seriously interfere with what I was immediately doing. This didn't occur with ThunderBird since that would occur through a different connection. BTW, TB!'s connection and interaction with the server, i.e., retrieving headers etc. is as fast as they come. The fastest I've encountered is ThunderBird and TB! is up there. The problem now is that despite reading a lot of TBUDL messages from work and seeing them marked as read and remaining marked as read even after repeatedly updating the header counts, I returned home to see the Unread message count for TBUDL as something like: 4 <49> The 4 represented the messages I had not read from work. The 49 represented the messages that I had read from work which were now *still marked unread when using TB! at home*. I had to quickly go through them to mark them as read, a POP-like experience. I never experienced this with ThunderBird. When a message is marked read using ThunderBird at work, it's *marked read*. When I reach home, TB! always updates to reflect all that had been done using ThunderBird at work. Something is amiss here and I wonder why ThunderBird get's it right while TB! doesn't. Again, despite scaling down the activities, TB!'s reliability falters on a slower connection in that I read mail at work and it's not reflected on the server as it should be so that when using another client from another location, what I've been doing at the original location isn't properly picked up. It's this sort of flaky behaviour that needs ironing out. I'm willing to do whatever is reasonably possible to help get rid of it. -- -=[ Allie ]=- (List Moderator and fellow end-user) PGPKeys: http://key.ac-martin.com Running The Bat! v2.11 Beta/5 on WinXP Pro (SP1)
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