[imp] Re: Delays in IMP

[Jan Schneider]

Zitat von Michael M Slusarz <slusarz at bigworm.curecanti.org>:

> 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.

Tip #3: Don't use any features that *require* the full message bodies, 
like message previews.

Jan.

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