I've got similar problems - a few thousand emails in each of three 
accounts, and it's very slow to poll.  Is it a bug?

On Tuesday, May 13, 2014 6:46:36 PM UTC+1, [email protected] wrote:
>
> I am often in areas without a cell or WiFi signal, so I would like use K-9 
> Mail primarily as an offline mail reader.
>
> I have Push totally disabled, and I only want to Pull when I manually 
> select Refresh.
>
> I am connected to an IMAP server that has a number of folders with 
> messages that go back several years. I'd like for all of those messages to 
> be permanently saved on my device so I can read them any time I choose, 
> even when I'm offline. Therefore, I have specified no time limit for my 
> message polling, for each of the accounds wherein these folders reside.
>
> I initially polled for all of these messages. After a period of time, all 
> of the messages in all those IMAP folders have been downloaded to my device.
>
> All this works, except for one issue.
>
> I have several hundred messages in each of several folders. When I am on 
> line and select Refresh, K-9 mail takes a very long time to re-poll each 
> folder, even though all the hundreds of messages have already been 
> downloaded.
>
> If I change my polling time limit to, say, a month, this re-polling of 
> already-existing messages goes a lot faster, but then, I can only view a 
> month's worth of messages in each folder.
>
> Is there any way to tell K-9 to display all pre-fetched messages in each 
> folder, but only to poll for newer messages when I perform a Refresh? An 
> alternative would be for the re-polling of already fetched messages to run 
> a lot faster. Is that possible, perhaps?
>
> Thank you in advance.
> .
>
>

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