[Kroupware] Questions about Kmail IMAP-client

[Bo Thorsen]

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On Monday 17 February 2003 14:34, Andreas Korn wrote:
> Bo Thorsen wrote:
> > It should only take a long time for the first synchronization, after
> > that it's only the changes that takes time. The diskspace there
> > really isn't anything to do with.
>
> It is not really a long time, but takes significantly longer than with
> traditional IMAP (like 20 second compared to 5 seconds). This doesn't
> matter, if you look for new mails every hour or so, but may get
> intolerable when you want to be really up to date and check every
> minute (like I do in our company network).

Yes, it really is slower for some reason - that's the truth.

> > Unfortunately there are places in the system that demands a
> > disconnected IMAP account for everything to work correctly, so I'm
> > afraid that for now the kroupware features means that you have to use
> > the disconnected IMAP.
>
> I'm curious about the places demanding disconnected IMAP and why. Could
> you be a bit more specific?

It's a lot of places in the libraries of KOrganizer. The code to send=20
stuff over KMail is in the IMAP storage code. The reason: I didn't clean=20
that part up yet :-( There are no technical reasons that can't be fixed.

Bo.

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     Bo Thorsen                 |   Praestevejen 4
     Senior Software Engineer   |   5290 Marslev
     Klar=E4lvdalens Datakonsult  |   Denmark
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