[imp] "Mail Preview" patch

Jan Schneider jan@horde.org
Thu Oct 31 19:44:09 PST 2002


Zitat von Michal <michal@michal.no-ip.com>:

> Will it be committed ?

I already thought about it, but I'm not sure. It surely is a nice feature
but also a huge performance eater. Perhaps we should _also_ make it a
configuration item, this is better than locking the preferences.

> Quoting Stephen Sherlock <stevesherlock@es-net.co.uk>:
> 
> > Hey all,
> >
> > This patch allows your users to elect to view a "mail preview" just
> below
> > the subject in the mailbox view. It gives the option to show all mail
> > previews or just the unread messages, control over how many characters
> from
> > the beginning of the mail to show and whether or not to strip line
> feeds.
> >
> > All settings are made from the options screen, and all options are in
> favour
> >
> > of reducing the number of calls to the IMAP server (since in a medium
> sized
> > installation, this can cause a lot more traffic!).
> >
> > I'd recommend in the earlier stages that you don't attempt to use it if
> you
> > have a large number of users, and only if your IMAP server runs on the
> same
> > machine as your webserver - at least until this has been tested
> thoroughly
> > in the "real world".
> >
> > Just apply to diff files to imp/mailbox.php,
> > imp/templates/mailbox/message_summaries.inc and imp/config/prefs.php
> > respectively.

Jan.

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