> > More frequent updates, even immediate updates of status chagnes > (reads/deletes) means less wierdness.
No, it would just make the weirdness happen more often. If on client A you delete a message, that change would be sync'd. Client B, where the message hasn't been deleted, would then sync and undelete the message. So to get around that you need a read, compare, write sequence - fine, but for how many messages? You frequently hear on this list of people having 10s of thousands of messages - any one of which might have been deleted or read or whatever - so you have to do a read/compare/write sequence for all the messages in all folders every time - currently when evo starts up on my home machine, it takes about 2 or 3 minutes to do that for all my folders: that's not something I want to happen very often! > > If we never wait to update the server, then we never have to worry "is > this change newer than mine." That sort of thing is OK when you have one or two users - but when you have a thousand or so users, having them update on every action is not kind to the server - I already get stressed with my users if they set their "check for new mail" to anything less than every 5 minutes or so. P. _______________________________________________ Evolution-list mailing list Evolution-list@gnome.org http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
