Re: IMAP timing issue
On Tue March 2 2010, Andrew Sackville-West wrote:
> I don't use kmail, but AIUI, it should only be loading the email
> _headers_ and not the entire emails. It should only load the email
> when she tries to view it. That said, if there are a whole lot of
> emails, it could still take a few seconds to load all the headers. But
> unless we're talking thousands of emails and a slow connection, it
> should still only take a few seconds. Iwould look at kmail and see
> whether it's pulling only headers or the entire emails.
ok, I just switched over to her account & clicked on the inbox ( which showed
no emails). After sitting there for 2 minutes while it showed " retrieving
headers"...
>
> > What can I do? I'm not that familiar with IMAP, would disconnected IMAP
> > be better?
>
> disconnected IMAP might help because it would have a local copy to
> load, speeding the process. But I suspect that's not really the
> problem.
that might help.
>
> BTW, what do you mean by "forever?
more than 2 minutes?
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