Package: offlineimap
Version: 4.0.8
Severity: wishlist
Hello,
Over connections with low latency (modem) offlineimap is rather slow
and cannot use the full bandwith as IMAP is a classic ping-pong
protocol:
offlineimap: send command
# command travels to IMAP server, offlineimap waits.
IMAP server acknowledges command
# acknowledgment message travels to offlineimap, offlineimap waits.
<ad nauseam>
I've previously experienced this problem with NNTP and switching to
client using PIPELING helped a lot (I guess about 100% speedup.)
I do not know whether IMAP supports PIPELINING (googling seems to
/suggests/ it does, but I failed to find the correct RFC). - If it
does please consider implementing PIPELINING support in
offlineimap.[1]
thanks for providing this great software, cu andreas
[1] Off by default an configuarble per server, as probably only one in
three IMAP servers will implement PIPELINING correctly. ;-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 3.1
APT prefers testing
APT policy: (500, 'testing')
Architecture: i386 (i686)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.8-2-k7
Locale: LANG=de_AT.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=de_AT.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Versions of packages offlineimap depends on:
ii python2.3 2.3.4-19 An interactive high-level object-o
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