Konrad Hinsen writes: > > 3. `vm-list-imap-folders' vastly improved. There are also other functions > > for working with IMAP servers listed in the manual. > > The new vm-list-imap-folders is fine for modest-sized accounts. On my > main account with > 100 mailboxes, it takes forever. I guess there > isn't much to do about this, since IMAP implemented in Emacs Lisp is > bound to be slow.
This is actually an IMAP problem, not of Emacs Lisp. (Actually, Emacs Lisp speed is quite ok on modern machines.) IMAP provides a "LIST" command which is required to be fast but doesn't give the status of the folders, and a separate "STATUS" command which is allowed to be slow and has to be queried individually for each folder. I would expect that many IMAP implementations take it to be a license for being as slow as possible. I will put it on the stack to consider other possible ways of doing it. Cheers, Uday
