From kmail-devel Sun Mar 25 02:55:25 2001 From: Jason Stephenson Date: Sun, 25 Mar 2001 02:55:25 +0000 To: kmail-devel Subject: Re: kmail wishlist/bugs X-MARC-Message: https://marc.info/?l=kmail-devel&m=98548791624385 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Saturday 24 March 2001 16:45, Michael Häckel wrote: > At least I don't know even one person personally who uses IMAP. I only here > about it via the internet. For many people POP3 with all its options > (Delete mails from the server, leave mails on the server, don't delete > mails from the server) is already too complicated :-) We use it at my day job with our web mail service. The web mail uses IMAP and all the user's mail is stored on our servers. People who use Eudora, KMail, pine and the like generally use POP3 to download the mail to their workstation. I don't believe anyone at our site uses IMAP, except those using our web mail and they use it indirectly without knowing. > Also people complain about KMail being slow with huge folders, switching > between huge IMAP folders is surely _much_ slower independant of the > client. IMAP itself can be very slow with large folders. Our entire mail server can be brought to its knees when someone with a couple (yes a couple) of 40+ MB mail folders logs in. Since we do something you should never do with IMAP, mount some user directories over NFS, the server often times out on these large folders and the user is unable to read their mail. The answer to that is delete your mail and the problem goes away. Once in a while, we have to restart the web server, 'cause the web mail program goes schizophrenic after a runaway IMAP process loses its mind. I don't know why everyone keeps screaming for IMAP support in KMail. In my professional opinion, as someone who maintains a mail server with SMTP, POP, and IMAP for over 6,000 users, IMAP doesn't hold a candle to POP3. We never have any problems with POP and it sucks down hundreds of messages in seconds while IMAP takes an eternity to read the same mailbox. Our mail server isn't huge, despite the 6,000+ users. It handles just over 3 GB of mail in an average week, about 50/50 incoming and outgoing. It runs on a 550 MHz PII with 256 MB of RAM with the FreeBSD OS. Apart from the occasional slowdowns with IMAP, it performs brilliantly. In sum, it is wrong to blame KMail for poor performance with IMAP when IMAP performs poorly in general. -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (GNU/Linux) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iEYEARECAAYFAjq9Xh4ACgkQRZu1ZcECWs3/7gCgnX21P/Ojz8N8HojzztkpZJxr ocIAoMrgRkLvPJhfjitI3i7qcZa+6e5t =0H7v -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Kmail Developers mailing list Kmail@master.kde.org http://master.kde.org/mailman/listinfo/kmail