On Nov 5, 2007 12:03 PM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Robert Burrell Donkin ha scritto: > > On Nov 5, 2007 9:01 AM, Stefano Bagnara <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it only metadata+headers or they also ask something about bodies > >> (excluding length) during the opening? > > > > the meta-data includes information about the structure body content > > including access to the MIME meta-data and encoding. also other > > assorted data such as number of lines. > > "structure body content" means that during opening they want to know how > many parts compose each message how they are nested, what kind of > encoding, disposition and other part headers they have? Or they need to > know only the first level or anything simpler?
full nesting including lines and octet length as they will output > As you told there are many ways for IMAP clients to do the same thing, > but I would probably target Thunderbird and Outlook as the most used > clients: is this a correct assuption? i don't use either of them thunderbird is peculiar and didn't work well with JAMES last time i checked outlook is worse since it's not a standard IMAP client evolution used to crash constantly with JAMES but all versions work ok(ish) with my local fork and the later versions don't crash even without my local fixes basically, i've come to the conclusion that the only way to have a practical IMAP is a full, standard implementation that is reasonably quick for all operations > In this case, do we already know > the exact "query" Thunderbird and Outlook do during opening? (or maybe > they changed from version to version, too?) i haven't monitored versions of thunderbird. different versions of evolution use different queries. IMO the only way to do IMAP is to do everything quick and correctly - robert --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
