Peter Fjelsten wrote: PF> I sort of never work off-line so the way I experience this is that PF> a progress "counts up" when selecting one of the messages that PF> should be local (after synchronize all folders). After a short PF> lag, the message is shown.
PF> This leads me to believe that it, in reality, is not fetched to my
PF> local machine.
At work here, I have to live with a dog slow connection.
I am able to read TBUDL messages here as if they were local. Why? The
messages are downloaded to cache during sync operations. In fact, I
could shut down my http tunneling software that makes me able to
connect to my server at home and still be able to browse these new
messages.
What you're experiencing is what I experience when using ThunderBird.
When I initially start ThunderBird, the folder counts are updated.
When I click on a folder, the new headers are downloaded since I have
to *wait* for this to happen. When I move to each new message,
ThunderBird will connect and download them on each occasion. You
cannot set it to do an unattended full synchronisation as TB! will do
here for me. I'm using MDaemon as my IMAP server. I don't know if that
has something to do with it.
If I was having your problem, I couldn't use TB! at work since TB!
tends not to download selected messages immediately. It tends to
always get busy syncing other folders before actually dealing with
your immediate request which is to retrieve the body of the message
you selected. I have just experienced a benefit to this sort of
behaviour. Over the weekend, moved a lot of messages to two IMAP
folders that I have set for full synchronisation at work. Despite my
slow connection, I'm able to be answering this message even though
those two folders have not yet been fully sync'd because TB! seems to
partially sync with each pass or devotes only a certain portion of
bandwidth to each sync per folder. It's as if it multi-tasks in a
sense. So instead of reaching a folder and spending all day sync'ing
5000 new messages, it partially sync's and moves to another folder.
Now, it would be nice to be able to override that behaviour, but it
would seem that this can't be done reliably. I do hope that it will
continue to behave that way though.
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