Mark Crispin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I do not understand the argument about SEARCH. Short of a network > failure, I have never seen a SEARCH be so slow that a wait for the result > is intolerable.
I have. I've also seen FETCH be that slow (due to lack of bandwidth). What's intolerable? In a different message I mentioned a GUI MUA on a dialup as an example. I want program exit to be snappy enough that the user can close the MUA window and the program actually will have exited by the time the user clicks on "disconnect modem". > Furthermore, if a mailbox is so large that a SEARCH requires a noticable > amount of real time, it seems to me that a well-written client would not > want to blithely discard the hard-won state from a selected stream on that > mailbox. Agreed. --Arnt
