On Thu, 2007-06-07 at 09:25 -0400, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > it's not possible to do better w/o dropping features like message > threading. > > In fact, the above minimalizing of header fetching already breaks the > quick context-menu "vfolder on mailing-list" and "filter on > mailing-list" features as well as making vfoldering on mailing-list > oodles slower (if it even still works after disabling the headers) What about letting the server do the threading, if it can? I realize not all can, and probably all will seem not as smart as they could be (or just different from how threading would be done in evolution). But otherwise, there's no way around getting lots of headers, and that is a huge hit with big folders.
That's the theory; the practice seems uglier. I tried mulberry, which is supposed to make very good use of IMAP. In many ways it does, but its use of server-side threading doesn't work too well. It seemed to get the response back quickly from the server, but then take minutes processing and parsing this response. Furthermore, every time one scrolls the window, it does it all over again. The other problem with server-side threading is that it threads everything. In principle it might make more sense to retrieve a window of headers and thread them. The window might not include all items in the thread, but that seems a reasonable trade-off to me in return for decent performance. One could do a more thorough job in the background and update when it finished. -- Ross Boylan wk: (415) 514-8146 185 Berry St #5700 [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dept of Epidemiology and Biostatistics fax: (415) 514-8150 University of California, San Francisco San Francisco, CA 94107-1739 hm: (415) 550-1062 _______________________________________________ Evolution-hackers mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
