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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] IMAP namespaces
From:       Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold () kainhofer ! com>
Date:       2005-05-16 9:53:45
Message-ID: 200505161154.04955.reinhold () kainhofer ! com
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Am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 11:27 schrieb Carsten Burghardt:
> Am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 10:51 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> > Am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 10:23 schrieb Carsten Burghardt:
> > > Am Sonntag, 15. Mai 2005 23:55 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> > > > On a side note: When I set up the account, it took me a while to
> > > > figure out why kmail would lock up every time after it was running
> > > > for a minute or so: it happened when the mail check was triggered,
> > > > and since initially I didn't use a prefix, it tried to list the whole
> > > > home dir. A typical user won't even be able to track down this
> > > > problem.
> > >
> > > This is not kmails fault but the standard behaviour of uw! It lists
> > > everything in your home dir and there is _no_ way to detect something
> > > like this.
> >
> > Yes. But an application should *NEVER EVER* lock up (in this case it was
> > even when the user didn't do anything, but the automated mail check was
> > triggered). This will simply scare the hell out of a user.
>
> If you get a listing of thousand of folders in one go you'll get problems,
> no matter what you do. At least your harddisk will get into trouble
> creating all these folders. But this behaviour did not change with the
> patch.

Yes. I wasn't talking about that patch. 
I was talking about the old behavior of KMail with our uw-imapd server. 
Actually, I haven't recompiled kmail since you commited that patch. I was 
just criticizing the old behavior of kmail. 

Reinhold

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