Hello Stefan, Wednesday, August 6, 2003, 7:12:43 PM, you wrote:
ST> This is actually planned. Technically, there is no problem to use ST> multiple connections, but it would increate the Beta testing period ST> which is already extremely long :-) Seeing how close to unusable it is for now, I wouldn't mind any longuer beta period. As 2.0 is only at Beta/1, is it important anyway ? :) ST> Actually, some tasks are performed in parallel (like getting message ST> count) and many tasks may change the current mailbox or cause ST> "racing", therefore queuing is preferred. Yes but there are many occasions where I see starvation and queuing then means "no-reaction" as long as longuer running tasks don't complete. ST> However, the option to use multiple IMAP connections is added to the ST> (new) fine-tune dialogue, but it will stay invisible until the next ST> Beta-series. Great. Maybe you are right, maybe the current queuing is a good solution, but on my IMAP account that doesn't look like good enough. I have been using IMAP clients for years. My account is quite complex and heavy, a bit less than 100 folders in a hierarchy. Most folders have a small number of messages (between 50 and 500). Some (but rarely used - archives) have in the order of 2000 to 5000 messages. I'm LAN connected to my IMAP server but polling ALL folders just for counts takes more than a minute. What would you recommend as synchronisation settings ? I have only a few folders where incoming mails are placed by the IMAP server (sorting rules on the server side). So I would like TB *not* to check *each* folder count everytime. It actually only has to monitor 5 or 6 folders for potential new messages. Any new message in another folder would only occur because of a move (which I would have done with TB filters or manually). For now, I have set *all* folders to NO synchonization except those that really receive new messages unattended : I set those to "Headers only". I often has the case where on entering a folder I see new messages, but when I click on them they don't display. Each time I see this, the connection centre shows NO connection or a connection apparently hanged on "Retrieving status of mailbox "x y or z". I'll try to continue TB 2.0 Beta/1 tomorrow in my day work to better test it, but for now, the behaviour makes it very uneasy to reliably check mails. Thanks ! -- Best regards, Olivier Mascia The Bat! v2.0 Beta/1 (Only IMAP accounts) Windows XP 5.1 Build 2600 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________________ Current beta is 2.0b1 | "Using TBBETA" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
