--On December 21, 2005 7:34:05 PM +0000 Richard Westlake
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
The Apple email client seems to be a particular antisocial with a large
INBOX. We used to be able to tell when one particular Apple user had
arrived, because the mail server would be unusable while their client
connected and scanned for new mail.
I would be curious if Erik Kangas or anyone else has any suggestions on
how to educate senior staff on the "pleasures of small inboxes"
I realize I'm not directly answering your question, but unless these users
are running disconnected from the network, you can (and perhaps should)
configure Apple Mail not to cache (I think you set the cache size to zero).
Apple Mail is an odd duck in that it is a very modern client which appears
to be designed to run over slow network connections -- it maintains a
cache of data about every message in every mailbox, which it downloads in
the background, and it uses that cache for searching and the like rather
than asking the server to do it.
Real IMAP clients should have no need for local data at all, except when
running in disconnected mode (see the late, great Mulberry for an
excellent implementation of this).
Mark
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