[Kroupware] Questions about Kmail IMAP-client

Bo Thorsen kroupware@mail.kde.org
Tue, 18 Feb 2003 15:50:15 +0100


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On Tuesday 18 February 2003 04:42, martin.konold@erfrakon.de wrote:
> On Monday 17 February 2003 06:44, Bo Thorsen wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> > > > It should only take a long time for the first synchronization,
> > > > after that it's only the changes that takes time. The diskspace
> > > > there
> > >
> > > traditional IMAP (like 20 second compared to 5 seconds). This
> > > doesn't
> >
> > Yes, it really is slower for some reason - that's the truth.
>
> Technically there is no reason why offline imap should be slower than
> traditional IMAP in any case.
>
> In addition I have the strong impression that the current imap
> implementation does not use pipelining in order to speed things up.

Correct. We sacrificed this over stability. The problem with the=20
pipelining comes, if you loose the internet connectivity during a sync.=20
We did not so far try to implement anything smart in the sync - we merely=20
made sure it works.

Bo.

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