On Sun, 2003-02-16 at 11:48, ahimsa wrote: > My question is about whether using the vfolders rather than the > 'regular' folders would be a more pasimonous use of resources and > enable Evo to work a little faster.
I don't really know about Evolution, but in general using real folders _should_ be much faster. If your mail client has to do filtering and sorting of mail, it has to download at least the headers of every mail in the 'input folders' and sort them itself -- taking up valuable network bandwidth, RAM and (possibly lots of) time. If you do your sorting into separate folders at message delivery time on the server, then your mail client doesn't have to download messages which end up in (v)folders you don't actually want to look at, and in fact your mail client doesn't even have to download headers for all the messages in a folder you _do_ look at -- it only needs to have the text which it needs to display on-screen, if you scroll the index display to that point in the folder. Vfolders, on the other hand, do allow you to have folders set up such that a single mail could be in more than one folder -- it could be all of 'Important' and 'From Fred' and 'Sender is Jane', for example. Using real folders doesn't allow you to do that. -- dwmw2 _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
