In a message dated: 05 Apr 2002 14:18:43 EST
Kevin D. Clark said:
>2: The University of Washington IMAP server is slower than death on
> qualudes (for very large mailboxes) -- I am currently investigating
> Cyrus IMAPD (in my copious spare time...). I still plan on using
> procmail too -- I don't have a lot of incentive to use sieve.
Yeah, Derek and I investigated this at MCLX. What Derek discovered
(correct me if I'm wrong) was that UW IMAP, when deleting messages
from a folder does so according to the following, very bad, process:
1. copy entire folder containing messages to be deleted to /tmp/foo
(I don't remember the file name, it's something seemingly random)
2. open /tmp/foo
3. delete /tmp/foo
4. copy all messages in /tmp/foo except those to be deleted
back to /var/spool/mail/pll (or, wherever it came from.
5. close /tmp/foo
>3: This scheme doesn't really work well if you only have one
> computer.
Why not? Are the forward rules you set within Exchange client side only?
That's one of the things I hate about POP/IMAP. You'd think with
something like Exchange the settings would be server side, it's a lot
more efficient! Well, I haven't seen Redmond adobt too many good
ideas in the past, why start now? :)
>I think that you'd be nuts to give up using Pine.
Unless you're switching to an mh-based system, which IMO is better ;)
--
Seeya,
Paul
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