On Tue, May 24, 2011 at 12:24 PM, Eric Charles <[email protected]> wrote:
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> On 24/05/2011 07:44, Norman wrote:
>
> <snip>
>>> - users usually access the last 50-100 emails (my observation)
>>
>> Kind of.. you often see an IMAP client todo some "big" FETCH on the
>> first connect to see if there are changes in the mailbox. Like
>>
>> a FETCH 1:* (FLAGS)
>>
>
> Yes, I regulary see that when I debug with wireshark some imap traffic. The
> full fetch can take some time for large mailboxes...

even pushing the data over the wire for these FETCHes takes a while. i
had it in mind to use streaming paged retrieval with asynchronous
writing to solve this...

Robert

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