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List:       kde-pim
Subject:    Re: [Kde-pim] IMAP namespaces
From:       Carsten Burghardt <burghardt () kde ! org>
Date:       2005-05-16 10:11:28
Message-ID: 200505161211.28339.burghardt () kde ! org
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Am Montag, 16. Mai 2005 11:53 schrieb Reinhold Kainhofer:
> 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.

I see. Kmail already tries to minimize this problem by retrieving only one 
level of folders and not the complete bunch. But this is my next task once 
the namespace support runs smooth: performance optimization.


Regards,

Carsten
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