[Kroupware] Questions about Kmail IMAP-client

[Andreas Korn]

Bo Thorsen wrote:
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> On Monday 17 February 2003 14:34, Andreas Korn wrote:
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>>Bo Thorsen wrote:
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>>>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 
> stuff over KMail is in the IMAP storage code. The reason: I didn't clean 
> that part up yet :-( There are no technical reasons that can't be fixed.

So we can look forward to a Kroupware KDE-client using regular IMAP 
sometime in the future. At least I am looking forward to this.
Thanks for the info.

Andreas

> 
> Bo.
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>      Bo Thorsen                 |   Praestevejen 4
>      Senior Software Engineer   |   5290 Marslev
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