On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:28 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote:
Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>> Never used IMAP, but believe KMail does it as well as POP mail, at
>> least for sane interpretations of the words "sane way". :-)
>
> POP and IMAP are two very different animals. AFAIK Kmail was designed as
> a POP client and had IMAP added later. Every so often I take another
> look at Kmail's IMAP support and get the impression it's still not quite
> there, e.g. when reconnecting to a large folder it seemed to spend an
> inordinate amount of time doing something (indexing? synching? cacheing?
> no idea) before I could see any messages. Note that I don't mean the
> first visit to the folder, which would be understandable, but every
> visit.
I use kmail with dovecot/IMAP and it works very well for me.
I don't notice the problem you mention.
How large are your folders?
I see I have 4142 messages in my home inbox.
(I archive it each year.)
I'm currently keeping my email in Ireland,
and accessing it on holiday in Italy,
and that works perfectly.
I had something like 100 new messages today,
and the folder came up almost at once.
Glad to hear it. IIRC it was the folder for this list, so several 10's
of thousands of messages, but it was a while back so I'm not completely
sure.
If I get a moment I'll try the latest Kmail and see what happens.
poc