[imp] More Traffic than Required in IMP?

[Chuck Hagenbuch]

Quoting Christoph Kaser <christoph at kaser.ch>:

> By Observing the Logs from my POP3-Mailserver, i've noticed, that IMP
> everytime Receives all Mails in Mailbox, even he has only do Display the
> first 20 Messages (...or Message 21-40, or Message 41-60).
>
> If you click 'next page' on Webmail, imp will receive the whole mailbox
> again. I think it's a massive Speed Brake for IMP, hardest case is: 1000
> Mails in a Mailbox out of LAN, then you have to wait, depending on the speed
> of the Internet-Connection, up to 3 Minutes to display one Page!
>
> Is there a Configuration Flag to solve up this Problem?

No. Use IMAP.

-chuck

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