[Tickets #3433] NEW: Limit Messages Fetched From IMAP

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Ticket URL: http://bugs.horde.org/ticket/?id=3433
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 Ticket             | 3433
 Created By         | nick at cole2.com
 Summary            | Limit Messages Fetched From IMAP
 Queue              | IMP
 Version            | 4.1-RC2
 State              | New
 Priority           | 1. Low
 Type               | Enhancement
 Owners             | 
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nick at cole2.com (2006-02-08 09:28) wrote:

This is a bit vague, but a point worth raising I hope.

I use IMP as a way of accessing my personal IMAP account through a work
firewall - all commercial webmail interfaces get blocked by surf-control or
similar.

I have recently been having problems accessing my account - the browser
session has been timing out, and I now think this is due to the number of
messages in my inbox (around 700).

I suddenly had a thought today, and wondered if I could instead use the
Search interface to just retrieve messages in my inbox which were received
today - this is working beautifully.

This has got me wondering about the way IMP interfaces with IMAP. Could it
be a configuration option to only fetch the last page-worth of messages when
accessing an IMAP folder? My assumption from the above behaviour is that at
present all headers are retrieved, but (obviously) only a single page-worth
of headers are displayed at any one time. My suggestion might also be quite
a performance improvement.