[Evolution] [Fwd: Re: Tunning for large number of files in INBOX]

[Jeffrey Stedfast]

oh yea, and threading... because ENVELOPE only gets you the In-Reply-To
value, not the References values.

Jeff

On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 13:16 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 10:41 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> > I can't comment on Pine, but I find TBird's IMAP a lot faster than
> > Evo's. Also more reliable (I've *never* had TBird hang on me). Given
> > recent comments about rewriting the IMAP code, is no-one thinking of
> > just adapting it from some other client (TBird, Pine, ...)? I mean,
> > isn't that what free software is all about?
> 
> rarely can one *ever* adapt code from one project into another because
> they use different abstractions, etc. Evolution also has features the
> others do not.
> 
> When I rewrote IMAP for Evo last year (which only supported the small
> subset of features the moz-mail, etc supported), it was blazingly fast
> until I had to go and add back all the feature-bloat that users demanded
> that had been included in previous versions of Evolution.
> 
> A huge slowness for Evo IMAP is the fact that it has to ask for
> whole-headers in order to support vfoldering on mailing-lists,
> attachment icons in the message-list, etc.
> 
> If you eliminate the need to FETCH BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS ...], and
> instead can settle on just ENVELOPE, things are MUCH faster. 
> 
> Jeff
> 
> > 
> > poc
> > 
> > On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 22:28 +0800, Murray Trainer wrote:
> > > Hi All,
> > > 
> > > I saw the comment about Evolution's IMAP performance in this recent
> > > thread on the Cyrus list and thought it might be of interest here.
> > > 
> > > Regards
> > > 
> > > Murray
> > > 
> > > -----Forwarded Message-----
> > > From: Marco Colombo <marco at esi.it>
> > > To: Andreas Hasenack <ahasenack at terra.com.br>
> > > Cc: info-cyrus at lists.andrew.cmu.edu
> > > Subject: Re: Tunning for large number of files in INBOX
> > > Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2005 15:54:16 +0200
> > > 
> > > On Thu, 2005-06-30 at 13:22 -0300, Andreas Hasenack wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Jun 29, 2005 at 02:56:58PM -0600, Michael Loftis wrote:
> > > > > clients retrofitted to squak IMAP.  Get a real IMAP client like Mulberry 
> > > > > that takes advantage of server side sorting, threading, and searching to 
> > > > > allow for (nearly) limitless mailboxes but not download each and every 
> > > > > header.
> > > > 
> > > > Is there a "real IMAP client" which is free software?
> > > > I have seen this "downloading *all* headers" behaviour with every free
> > > > imap client I have tried.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Not that I'm suggesting it, but pine doesn't show the "all headers"
> > > behavior, and it's free. :-)
> > > 
> > > Too bad they forgot that an imap folder can hold both messages and
> > > subfolders, and they had to add a late hack to allow the correct
> > > browsing of a Cyrus server. No client is perfect.
> > > 
> > > Being an old-time user of Pine, it's always a pain to use Thunderbird or
> > > Evolution, clients so feature-full but w/o decent imap behavior:
> > > sometimes I have to switch back to Pine to be able to handle 50k+ new
> > > messages per folder in a decent time (Pine takes negligible time to open
> > > them).
> > > 
> > > .TM.
> > > 
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Jeffrey Stedfast
Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc.
fejj at ximian.com  - www.novell.com