[imp] Imp+sorting=terrible slow down

[Michael M Slusarz]

Quoting Jigish Gohil <jigish.gohil at gmail.com>:

> Just wanted to know, does imap proxy have any performance advantage in
> this kind of situation, i.e. large mailboxes and sorting?

No.  It will have a performance advantage in general due to the reduced 
overhead in creating the connection to the IMAP server, but a proxy is 
not going to speed up the actual sorting of messages in a mailbox which 
is occurring exclusively on the IMAP server.

michael

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Michael Slusarz [slusarz at curecanti.org]