[imp] Re: Delays in IMP

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Fernando Gont <fgont at li.frh.utn.edu.ar>:

> Folks,
>
> I have installed IMP, and I have found the following problem:
>
> It seems that whenever you surf through your mails, for example, the
> range 0-20, IMP must rertieve the entire body of all those messages.
>
> When there are large messages in the range, this can cause troble, or at
> least long delays befor the list of mails can be displayed on the screen.
>
> Is there any reason for retrieving the entire body of the messages,
> rather than getting the headers by means of the TOP command?
>
> This would certainly speed things up, and avoid the problems I'm mentioning.

Tip #1: Use IMAP, not POP.
Tip #2: c-client is responsible for the interaction between the POP 
server and the local client, not IMP.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]