On Sun, 2014-02-09 at 09:46 +0100, Ambrogio De Lorenzo wrote: > Il giorno sab, 08/02/2014 alle 16.23 +0000, Patrick O'Callaghan ha > scritto: > > On 8 February 2014 12:52, Pete Biggs <p...@biggs.org.uk> wrote: > > > The developers know about it, but changing the fundamental way that mail > > > retrieval operates is not a trivial undertaking. There's also lots of > > > other things that need to be done with Evo, and developers time is not > > > limitless. Probably the best thing to do is to find the relevant bug > > > report in bugzilla (sorry, don't know what it is), and add a comment to > > > it. > > A workaround for some people is to use fetchmail for the actual mail > > downloading and point Evo at a local mailstore. > Hi Patric, > I have fetchmail, but I would like to use IMAP because of syncro with > other devices (my old PC from which I'm migrating mails, Phone with > mails, pad etc etc).
What device cannot sync to an IMAP account? There is nothing in that tying you to G's very slow mail service. Service's like FastMail.fm provide 'cloud' IMAP accounts with solid service and support for standards. > So fetchmail is a poor workaround. I agree. > I can understand that the problem is hard to solve, but if the problem > was present in evo 2.32.3 and now in 3.10.3 I think it's a problem that > developers don't wont to fix. "developers don't wont to fix" is unfair. It is a problem related to a single provider - and a provider whose service exhibits terrible performance characteristics. > I pushed to the red cross for year, I will continue to click it :-) -- Adam Tauno Williams <mailto:awill...@whitemice.org> GPG D95ED383 Systems Administrator, Python Developer, LPI / NCLA _______________________________________________ evolution-list mailing list evolution-list@gnome.org To change your list options or unsubscribe, visit ... https://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/evolution-list
