Excerpts from William Morgan's message of Sat Dec 15 13:04:10 -0800 2007:
> Actually, large IMAP folders will always present a significant problem
> for Sup, because IMAP sucks balls. Short story: Sup has to *always*
> download the headers of the entire mailbox in order to function
> correctly. So every time you start up Sup you're going to be sitting
> there, waiting for that to happen, before you can do anything with
> your IMAP messages.

It might be possible for this not to be the case for well-behaved IMAP
clients, i.e. those that don't change UIDVALIDITY often. If I store the
UIDs directly, then no header pull would be necessary, but a change in
UIDVALIDITY would require a full rescan a la sup-sync --changed.

-- 
William <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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