[Kde-pim] Re: close the Bug 77862: kio_imap processes

[Torgny Nyblom]

On Mon, 8 Nov 2010 19:19:08 +0100
Guy Maurel <guy-kde at maurel.de> wrote:
> On Sunday 07 November 2010 23:23:21 Ingo Klöcker wrote:
[...]
> > Re-opening the connection each time I want to read the next message
> > is completely insane. In particular, with an encrypted connection
> > this will
> "insane" isn't the right adjectiv for this!
> My proposal is to close the connection after a "amount of time",
> maybe after a time of inactivity...
> 
> > require several round trips. IMNSHO, it's insane to optimize for a
> NO, it isn't insane to try to make kmail better!
> We have to find a solution for as many situations as possible...
> As the processors are getting quicker, as the bandwidths are getting
> larger, we need to have informations about the time kmail requires
> for "several round trips" and examinate if it is realy "too long" to
> wait for. It was correct to deal such a way as the users have only a
> 54K-modem. Now, we have to re-examine the situation before taking a
> decision.

Without taking sides here, it might be work thinking about the
potential load this will create on the servers as well. They can handle
quite a few clients so a small client load can trigger a big server
load.

/Regards
Torgny
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