wans;t there once case where it would do a copy instead of rename, or did that get fixed?
On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 09:40 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Sat, 2004-02-28 at 21:58, Antony Stubbs wrote: > > On Fri, 2004-02-27 at 14:52, guenther wrote: > > > Anthony, you snipped the part, where I agreed with you (and some other > > > hackers) that an option to force confirmation of moving folders (or even > > > mails) would be a good idea. > > > > > > It can prevent unintended heavy loads. Think of moving a local archive > > > folder to the IMAP server on the other end of a slow connection... > > > > > > > > > > Perhaps only > > > > pop-up when there's over a certain number of emails within the folder? > > > > say 10? > > > > > > Personally I would tend to raise that number to about 100 or limit it by > > > size instead of count, but that is only a feeling. This sounds like a > > > very good idea to me, though. > > > > I get the feeling that when you move a folder, evolution copies each > > mail individually and the deletes the original. Is this correct? Is the > > IMAP "standard" capable of sending commands like the client sending > > "Move folder foo into folder bar" and have the entire move done on > > server-side? Obviously this would be much more efficient - but I'm > > guessing IMAP can't do that? > > Evolution uses the RENAME IMAP command when moving IMAP folders to a new > location within the same IMAP Store, however... if one was to move a > folder not belonging to that IMAP Store into that IMAP Store (or a > folder in that IMAP Store out of that IMAP Store), then we must copy > messages individually. > > Jeff > > -- > Jeffrey Stedfast > Evolution Hacker - Ximian, Inc. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] - www.ximian.com > > _______________________________________________ > evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers _______________________________________________ evolution-hackers maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution-hackers
