On Monday 23 February 2009 12:42:55 Jos? Matos wrote: > 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. :-) > I believe that there are applications that can "fetch" gmail messages then you wouldn't have to worry about network latency. Eli -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/kde/attachments/20090223/f66f45d8/attachment.html
