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

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Comment	>> 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. > > > > If this works better for you, then you should save this search as a > virtual folder and then set this virtual folder as your default > folder in the preferences. > > > >> 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? > > > > No - because in order to determine the last page of messages in an > IMAP folder, we have to know the order of all messages in the > folder. To do this requires a search command on the IMAP server - a > potentially expensive call depending on your mailbox structure, your > IMAP server speed, your IMAP server I/O speed, and the # of messages > in the mailbox. You've also enabled the 'sort_limit' configuration > option, correct? > > > >> My assumption from the > >> above behaviour is that at present all headers are retrieved > > > > This assumption would be incorrect. > > > >> but > >> (obviously) only a single page-worth of headers are displayed at any > >> one time. My suggestion might also be quite a performance improvement. > > > > If you want performance improvement, try CVS and its full mailbox > caching capabilities.
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