> My telnet client could do 'ls -lR /' when I log in, and cache it, but it > doesn't :-) If your telnet client would need several minutes to show you all files in case you are searching for a file you don't exactly know its name, then you would definitely prefer that it would do so. Best, Daniel > Am Donnerstag, 27. Juli 2006 14:45 schrieb Joseph Brennan: > --On Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:58 -0700 Nikola Milutinovic > > <alokin1@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Say you have a GUI IMAP client XxX. Say you start it up and click on the > > INBOX. What would you desire/expect XxX to do? > > First I'd like it not to open inbox unless I do click on inbox (or unless > I configured it to open inbox). That's a pop holdover. As if, what else > would I be running a mail client for? Well, with imap I might be wanting > to check some other folder. > > When opening inbox, a client is usually configured to list new messages. > If so it really needs only to fetch headers of new messages. The rest do > not matter unless the user wants to scroll back, and even then it might > fetch only the next N messages back. > > Some clients actually open and cache headers of all subscribed folders. > That does not scale on a system where users are advised to subscribe to > many shared folders. > > My telnet client could do 'ls -lR /' when I log in, and cache it, but it > doesn't :-) > > Joseph Brennan > Columbia University Information Technology > > > > ---- > Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus > Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu > List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
