Tickets :: Comment on [#3433] Limit Messages Fetched From IMAP

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Comment	> This is a bit vague, but a point worth raising I hope. > > > > I use IMP as a way of accessing my personal IMAP account through a > work firewall - all commercial webmail interfaces get blocked by > surf-control or similar. > > > > I have recently been having problems accessing my account - the > browser session has been timing out, and I now think this is due to > the number of messages in my inbox (around 700). > > > > I suddenly had a thought today, and wondered if I could instead use > the Search interface to just retrieve messages in my inbox which were > received today - this is working beautifully. > > > > This has got me wondering about the way IMP interfaces with IMAP. > Could it be a configuration option to only fetch the last page-worth > of messages when accessing an IMAP folder? My assumption from the > above behaviour is that at present all headers are retrieved, but > (obviously) only a single page-worth of headers are displayed at any > one time. My suggestion might also be quite a performance improvement.
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