Hi all, 1) mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
This message gives a detailed discription of a problem I'm having with TB! IMAP on a slow connection where message attributes aren't being correctly changed on the server. 2) mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This message touches on another serious problem I'm having with TB!'s IMAP and I think it would be greatly improved by allowing TB! to establish multiple connections with the server. In this way while TB! is doing one task such as syncing a folder or updating mailbox message counts, my request to retrieve a message body can be carried out by another connection. This would then lead to a much reduced waiting time during use over slow connections. There's concern about IMAP servers and multiple connections, but ThunderBird, Mulberry, Gemini and Pegasus, the only clients worth mentioning all implement multiple server connections. **** The mid searching is getting tedious so I'll just list. :) 3) We need, on a per message and not only a mailbox basis, to be able to download only a messages body and delay transfer of attachments until we expressly request it. It's terrible having to wait for a large attachment to be transferred on a slow connection when all one really wishes to do is to read the text. Ideally, we should have a threshold setting where attachments below a certain size is autotransferred locally, while large ones are not loaded unless requested. Setting the mailbox to sync only message bodies is not good enough since that will happen to all messages. We need a more selective system than that. 4) Despite testimonies to the contrary, I'm still having a lot of problems with using a server side Outbox. Copies of the message are being left in the Outbox after sending. I usually end up with two copies with each send. Additionally, autosaving leads to a fresh new *separate* draft being saved to the outbox with each autosave. 5) Incoming mail sounds are not working with IMAP. Hopefully a solution is in the making. 6) Auto-filtering not working - I see this is being worked on. 7) Access Violations *STILL* occur when working with the Manage IMAP folders panel. I've been getting them while trying to delete multiple IMAP folders, one after the other. What I end up having to do is to delete one, close the panel, reopen the panel and hope the AV doesn't occur. If it occurs then I have to restart TB! before I can delete another folder. 8) Support for IMAP server specific message colouring. The colour groups system is TB! specific and difficult to use across different IMAP clients. Not to mention that storing colour group attributes on the server is a likely problem. AFAIK, the IMAP protocol already supports specific standard colour label attributes which would be very useful to implement. 9) Moving messages from an IMAP to a local folder is problematic when being done with large numbers of messages. The movement of messages hangs at about 300 and will not continue further. I have to restart TB! to continue. I currently move large amounts of messages by doing an export operation from the IMAP folder and then import the exported messages locally. I then delete the exported messages from the IMAP mailbox. Even the export/import exercise is not without problems. At times when doing the operation with multiple mailboxes, an export operation fails. I hit the export command and nothing happens. A restart resolves the problem. The failure of the export happens usually after having done an export from another mailbox. There may be others, but these are the ones that immediately come to mind. I've previously written about all these problems. -- -=[ Allie ]=- (List Moderator and fellow end-user) PGPKeys: http://key.ac-martin.com Running The Bat! v2.11 RC/1 on WinXP Pro (SP1)
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