Re: Thunderbird's IMAP connections.
Steve Lamb wrote:
Juergen Nickelsen wrote:
This is not uncommon with IMAP clients; the intent is to be able to
do multiple things in parallel. The IMAP standard permits this.
Granted but I find 5 idle IMAP connections just a bit excessive.
I dropped it to 2 and haven't noticed a slowdown. I mean when am I
really doing more than 2 things at once? About the only thing I could
think of was having a huge list of mail being deleted (AKA, moved to
"Trash") while trying to copy another huge list of mail to another
folder while downloading the latest batch of useless baby pictures
from some unknown coworker. Even then I expect a wee bit of a
slowdown and that's ok for the trade-off of not hogging several MB of
RAM on my server just to sit idle the other
99.999999999999999453459999% of the time. ;)
How about syncing all folders while still reading and deleting/replying
to other mail? Works great.
Only time you ever have any issues is when/if the folder sync runs
across another folder that's getting an update with some IMAP servers
(UW for sure, don't know about others) -- the server will complain the
folder is already "in use".
Nate
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