On Thu, 2009-08-06 at 15:28 +0200, Timothy Murphy wrote: > Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > >> Never used IMAP, but believe KMail does it as well as POP mail, at > >> least for sane interpretations of the words "sane way". :-) > > > > POP and IMAP are two very different animals. AFAIK Kmail was designed as > > a POP client and had IMAP added later. Every so often I take another > > look at Kmail's IMAP support and get the impression it's still not quite > > there, e.g. when reconnecting to a large folder it seemed to spend an > > inordinate amount of time doing something (indexing? synching? cacheing? > > no idea) before I could see any messages. Note that I don't mean the > > first visit to the folder, which would be understandable, but every > > visit. > > I use kmail with dovecot/IMAP and it works very well for me. > I don't notice the problem you mention. > How large are your folders? > I see I have 4142 messages in my home inbox. > (I archive it each year.) > > I'm currently keeping my email in Ireland, > and accessing it on holiday in Italy, > and that works perfectly. > I had something like 100 new messages today, > and the folder came up almost at once. Glad to hear it. IIRC it was the folder for this list, so several 10's of thousands of messages, but it was a while back so I'm not completely sure. If I get a moment I'll try the latest Kmail and see what happens. poc -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Communicate/MailingListGuidelines
