[imp] Imap/Imp questions

Vincent Stoessel vincent@xaymaca.com
Wed, 01 May 2002 11:41:41 -0400


Thanks for the answers. I have turned off 'show_attachments'
and it seems like it is staying on the 19sec side a little more
consistantly now.
Thanks.

Chuck Hagenbuch wrote:
> Quoting Vincent Stoessel <vincent@xaymaca.com>:
> 
> 
>>1.Does IMP check for new messages each time you click on the INBOX
>>icon?
> 
> 
> Yes.
> 
> 
>>2.Retrieving 244 messages from my INBOX seems "slow" (19-70 seconds)
>>  this slowness happens when I first log in and when I return to my INBOX
>>  from reading a message. Granted that many of the messages have word
>>  attachments. Does IMAP/IMP retrieve the bodies as well as
>>  the headers each time you open the INBOX folder?
> 
> 
> Depends on what version you're using; if you're using 3.0 or later, it 
> only looks at all the messages if you have 'show_attachments' set to true. 
> 2.2.x will peek at the body of all messages, though.
> 
> -chuck
> 
> --
> Charles Hagenbuch, <chuck@horde.org>
> "A dream which helps you to live your reality with dignity
>  and justice is a good dream." - Tariq Ramadan



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Vincent Stoessel
Linux Systems Developer
vincent xaymaca.com