--On Thursday, July 27, 2006 2:58 -0700 Nikola Milutinovic <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Say you have a GUI IMAP client XxX. Say you start it up and click on the INBOX. What would you desire/expect XxX to do?
First I'd like it not to open inbox unless I do click on inbox (or unless I configured it to open inbox). That's a pop holdover. As if, what else would I be running a mail client for? Well, with imap I might be wanting to check some other folder. When opening inbox, a client is usually configured to list new messages. If so it really needs only to fetch headers of new messages. The rest do not matter unless the user wants to scroll back, and even then it might fetch only the next N messages back. Some clients actually open and cache headers of all subscribed folders. That does not scale on a system where users are advised to subscribe to many shared folders. My telnet client could do 'ls -lR /' when I log in, and cache it, but it doesn't :-) Joseph Brennan Columbia University Information Technology ---- Cyrus Home Page: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus Cyrus Wiki/FAQ: http://cyruswiki.andrew.cmu.edu List Archives/Info: http://asg.web.cmu.edu/cyrus/mailing-list.html
