On Mon, 2006-04-24 at 23:57 +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > On Fri, 2006-04-21 at 14:47 -0500, Ron Johnson wrote: > > > > And STATUS means "tell me about *all* emails? If so, bummer. > > > > > > Turns out it's not STATUS but LIST, but in any case you can see the > > > (impressive) amount of traffic generated by running with > > > CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1. > > > > received: * 12147 FETCH (UID 12166 FLAGS (\Seen))^M > > received: * 12148 FETCH (UID 12167 FLAGS (\Seen))^M > > received: * 12149 FETCH (UID 12168 FLAGS (\Seen))^M > > received: * 12150 FETCH (UID 12174 FLAGS (\Seen))^M > > received: A00049 OK FETCH completed.^M > > No, that's neither STATUS nor LIST. That's FETCH, and it's a regression > since Evolution 2.2. It's fetching the flags and the headers for every > mail in every folder. Even if you were to prune your cache, it'd refetch > them every time it checks for new mail. > > We _used_ to just use STATUS, and it took about three lines of traffic > to check how many mails were in folders like your history subfolders. In > Evo 2.6 (or maybe 2.4) the code was changed and now it re-fetches the > flags for _every_ header in each folder, each time it visits (which is > quite frequently).
I'm speechless. Was this done because some IMAP servers were buggy? If not, there would seem to be no justification for it. > This is bug #336076. It shouldn't be fetching all the headers for the > folders you don't care about -- it only needs to use STATUS, if it wants > to tell you how many mails there are unread in that folder. > > There's a patch attached to bug #336074 which might possibly help -- it > allows evo to check for mail only in active folders, rather than in all > folders on the server. By "active" do you mean "subscribed"? > It does mean that the unseen count for those > folders won't get updated either though. If you only check INBOX these counts are wrong anyway, so we'd be no worse off. > The real fix is to start using > STATUS again for checking mail folders. Absolutely. poc _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
