KDEPIM 4.6 prob^Wimpressions

[Kevin Krammer]

On Wednesday, 2011-07-20, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 07:58:59 PM Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > KMail.
> > Account type "Disconnected IMAP" basically works by two-way synchronizing
> > a local copy of IMAP folders with the server, thus allowing offline
> > (disconnected) access to the data.
> > This was originally mainly necessary for working with IMAP based
> > groupware servers such as Kolab, to ensure addressbook and calendar
> > entries could be accessed quickly without needing to wait for the IMAP
> > server to respond.
> 
> So for those of us that use on-line IMAP, do we continue to do so?  And
> what exactly happens during migration?  Is it simply Akonadi "indexing"
> for want of a better word all our stored IMAP mail?

Online IMAP will work similar to how it worked on KMail1.
Where KMail1 only cached headers, Akonadi will do that and keep messsage 
bodies for a certain time before discarding them. I think the timeout is 
something like an hour.

So if one opens an IMAP folder, headers for all messages are fetched (needed 
for displaying subjects, etc). Any message which is viewed will be downloaded 
at viewing time but then be locally available until the cache timeout purges 
it. After that it has to be downloaded again.

Once there we have proper UI for configuring cache policies, this timeout can 
of course be manipulated, e.g. further reduced.

Cheers,
Kevin

-- 
Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring
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