test please

Eli Wapniarski eli at orbsky.homelinux.org
Mon Feb 23 11:00:48 UTC 2009


On Monday 23 February 2009 12:42:55 José Matos wrote:
> On Monday 23 February 2009 10:30:11 Eli Wapniarski wrote:
> > Why are you caching imap. Do you need to carry the mail offline? Why not
> > simply leave it on the server.
>
> I leave it on the server it just happens that I also have a local copy. :-)
>
> I had several problems when using just imap due to the latency in the
> connection.
>
> The latency in imap is noticeable if you are reading a large message, you
> have to wait for the message to be downloaded. At the same time if you are
> skimming over small messages just as I do in several folders (like cvslog
> for Fedora) it gets easy to notice the delay.
>
> Some of the imap accounts that I use have not so generous quotas (this one
> I am using has 512 MB) that means that sometimes I have to move locally
> messages for larger folders. If I did this with imap kmail would slowdown
> for quite a large time with dimap it is reasonable and bearable.
>
> And also sometimes I am in places with no connectivity and then it is quite
> nice to be able to read your email while I wait for the next train/plane.
>
> kmail become useful again after using dimap. :-)
>

I believe that there are applications that can "fetch" gmail messages then you 
wouldn't have to worry about network latency.

Eli

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