On Sun, Feb 02, 2003 at 05:32:38PM +0000, Miquel van Smoorenburg wrote: > >1.) performance: > > That's because all webmail clients are incredibly stupid. Because > HTTP is stateless, they connect to the IMAP server every time you > click on something. And every time the IMAP server has to open the > mailbox and scan all messages in it.
Ugh, it seems you're right; I can see in the syslog that there's always a login/logout sequence reported whenver I click. Maybe the courier-imapd doesn't scan all files on each connect, who knows for sure? But it could (partly) explain why the mozilla client is considerably faster than the webmail clients; it seems to keep the connection open. > They should really use a persistant proxy or something in-between > that keeps the connection open for the duration of the entire > webmail session. AFAIK there's only one webmail thingy that actually > does that, but I can't remember the name :( On freshmeat or sourceforge I've seen an imap proxy that seems to do exactly that. I wondered what it is intended for, but now its purpose becomes clear. Maybe I should check it out. GH -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
