[kdepim-users] dIMAP & kmail

[Carsten Burghardt]

Kishore schrieb:
> On Thursday 15 May 2008 20:15:00 Bengt Gördén wrote:
>> Den Thursday 15 May 2008 16.08.26 skrev Kishore:
>> > I dont know for sure, but i think caching is a local thing and the
>> server
>> > need not know if it's pure IMAP or DIMAP. But the polling frequency
>> can
>> > be an issue on the server. Could it be that a new query is initiated
>> by
>> > kmail for each folder and that makes it appear to poll every few
>> seconds?
>>
>> I remember when I connected to a courier-server at my former work. I
>> always
>> was at the "top of the tops" in the process listing.
>>
>> I still have the email account there so I did a tcpdump now and there
>> were
>> 3434 packets exchanged when I checked the mail. I have 20 folders to
>> check.
>> It's imaps so I can't really see what's going on there with tcpdump. But
>> it
>> is a lot of traffic without a single mail being transferred. It might be
>> the nature of dIMAP I really don't now. Just my observation.
>
> I dont think it is specific to dimap. That must be because kmail does not
> support being notified by the server and hence needs to perform multiple
> actions like getting a msg list probably and then fething those which are
> new. Again, this is only my educated guess. I know nothing about these
> technologies.

dIMAP is a little bit more demanding in this case as it has to check for
more stuff with each mailcheck for every folder.


Carsten

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