[imp] Opening folders painfully slow - SOLVED

[Paul Gardiner]

lst_hoe02 at kwsoft.de wrote:
> Zitat von Paul Gardiner <lists at glidos.net>:
>> One question I still have. Is the need for this setting because
>> of the imap server I'm using? I use courier. Might another
>> handle sorted request more efficiently? Or might I not have
>> the best configuration set up for courier?
>>
>> Cheers,
>>     Paul.
> 
> It depends what field you use to sort. Most IMAP server have some index 
> on most common searched/sorted fields so sorting by this fields would be 
> quick, all others painful slow with many messages in the inbox.

Ok. Strange thing is that I don't think I've ever used anything other
than increasing date order, and that's what I still seem to get in
large folders even with the sort_limit setting.

Paul.