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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users]
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2006-05-19 19:10:20
Message-ID: 200605192110.28588 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Friday 19 May 2006 20:16, Gurvan Huiban wrote:
> On Friday 19 May 2006 14:21, Aaron J. Seigo wrote:
> > > Which is exactly what I already wrote much earlier in this
> > > discussion, but this answer didn't seem to be satisfying. Sigh.
> >
> > sometimes it takes a few different people saying the same thing in
> > different ways for a concept to really become comprehensible. human
> > beings are weird. =)
>
> I actually found the explanation of Aaron more convincing and clear
> than the explanation of Ingo (I do not intend to offend anyone). I
> also would like to thank you for the time you dedicated to answer our
> questions.
>
> Finally (correct me if I am wrong), the softwares that allow the user
> to use procmail (mutt, some imap server, and so on) decided to choose
> the "other" solution to avoid synchronization problems (that is not
> to rely on an index file and reparsing the folder/mailbox each time
> it is open). Is that correct?

Yes, for all that I know mutt reparses the folder each time you switch 
to it. Pro: It's robust. Con: For large folders it's much slower than 
an email client using index files.

Regards,
Ingo

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