[Kroupware] Re: Kroupware client

[Bo Thorsen]

I'm sending this to the kroupware list too, because the answers here might=
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be interesting for others too.

On Tuesday 04 February 2003 21:11, Andreas Hildebrandt wrote:
> Today, I compiled the kroupware branch from cvs (having
> already compiled and installed KDE-3.1). But the cached
> imap of kmail was nearly unusable for me. The thing was
> so incredibly slow that -- with a check interval of
> several minutes -- it never finished one check before
> the next was due. The normal IMAP support in KDE-3.1
> seems to work perfect for me.

We know. And it's something we have to look into of course. The reason is=20
that we've had too little time to develop this, so we focused on=20
stability over speed. Now that it's stable and the betas start coming out=20
the door, we can start worrying about speedups.

I know this is a debatable decision - especially wether or not one should=20
put out a beta with this - but we felt that it was usable. I at least=20
enjoy using disconnected IMAP.

> Browsing through the source, I noticed that you disabled
> "normal" IMAP in the kroupware branch. Is this necessary?
> Can't you have a regular IMAP account and - on another
> server with a different identity - a kolab account?

It was removed completely because KMail made a lot of wrong assumptions as=
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soon as imap was involved. I don't think it will be back.

> Or do you plan to reenable normal IMAP soon? I would
> really
> like to test all that stuff, but I need a usable kmail...

The way I do it is to have as little in my IMAP folders as possible, then=20
it's possible to work with it. But that's of course a bad workaround.

> Thanks in the advance, and thanks for all the effort!

You're welcome :-)

Bo.

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