On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 10:43 +0100, José Matos wrote:
On Monday 03 August 2009 23:46:30 Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
>
> 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 cached imap on kmail with good results. It is fast and since the
messages are also stored locally it is quite fast.
Is that a setting? If so, I hadn't noticed it.
The only precaution worth of note is not to subscribe the "All
Mail" folder
for gmail accounts.
Of course :-)
poc