[imp] strange things in summary

[Jon Parise]

On Wed, Jun 13, 2001 at 04:16:23PM +0200, Jan Schneider wrote:

> > My concern with this is that the summaries are supposed to be
> > fairly light- weight; opening each folder in turn to list
> > unread messages would get fairly expensive. Also, it opens
> > the door to serious feature-creep - I don't want it to be a
> > mini-mailbox view.
> 
> I understand your intention. Perhaps a solution could be to
> read a maximum of - let's say - three or five messages of each
> folder.
 
That would still involve opening each folder, which is the
performance hit we're trying to avoid here.  The number of
messages read is largely irrelevant.

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Jon Parise (jon@csh.rit.edu)  .  Rochester Inst. of Technology
http://www.csh.rit.edu/~jon/  :  Computer Science House Member