Re: IMAP timing issue-SOLVED
On Tue March 2 2010, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
> Those are both the same protocol has far as what's "on the wire". As a
> KMail user, I'd never use "IMAP" it has minimal caching so a server
> round-trip is required for most operations, including reading mail. It
> would only be appropriate for a computer on the same LAN as the server, and
> even then only if the client could not spare the disk space for the cache.
>
> "disconnected IMAP" has some problems as well, but they aren't chronic the
> way the performance issues are with "IMAP". Sometimes the caches/indexes
> get out of sync, but there are way to fix that from the GUI.
I created a new disconnected IMAP account, and it instantly brought in 87
messages, 36 of them new, so I think that is the answer, thanks!
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