On Monday 23 February 2009 10:30:11 Eli Wapniarski wrote: > Why are you caching imap. Do you need to carry the mail offline? Why not > simply leave it on the server. I leave it on the server it just happens that I also have a local copy. :-) I had several problems when using just imap due to the latency in the connection. The latency in imap is noticeable if you are reading a large message, you have to wait for the message to be downloaded. At the same time if you are skimming over small messages just as I do in several folders (like cvslog for Fedora) it gets easy to notice the delay. Some of the imap accounts that I use have not so generous quotas (this one I am using has 512 MB) that means that sometimes I have to move locally messages for larger folders. If I did this with imap kmail would slowdown for quite a large time with dimap it is reasonable and bearable. And also sometimes I am in places with no connectivity and then it is quite nice to be able to read your email while I wait for the next train/plane. kmail become useful again after using dimap. :-) > Eli -- Jos? Ab?lio
