On Fri, March 24, 2006 09:51, eCet wrote: > Jonathan Angliss wrote: > > >> >> Not entirely possible. At least not with accurate results. Plus I >> think the hold up is in the processing of the THREAD results, and not >> the fetching of the message headers. The problem you're going to have >> is you're going to have to fetch the whole thread response to find out >> which block of 5000 you want to fetch. The second problem is, 5000 >> messages aren't necessarily going to be sequential numbers, so you >> cannot even guess a range. > > I think yes. So we know the whole number of messages. It is 20.000. > SM don't says SORT (ARRIVAL) ISO-8859-2 ALL, rather It says SORT > (ARRIVAL) ISO-8859-2 20000,19999,19998,19997..., ...,15000 > Nobody cares about the 13422th message. If user wants to access it, ok, > then say to get the second 5000 block, from 15000-10000 >
I agree. What we could do is if the message count in a folder > your supposed 5000 then do FETCH 1:* UID first (which is fast) and then take a slice of that. With the resulting id's we can create a message set and provide the UID search argument to the thread call and we are done. Regards, Marc Groot Koerkamp. ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid=110944&bid=241720&dat=121642 -- squirrelmail-users mailing list Posting Guidelines: http://www.squirrelmail.org/wiki/MailingListPostingGuidelines List Address: squirrelmail-users@lists.sourceforge.net List Archives: http://news.gmane.org/thread.php?group=gmane.mail.squirrelmail.user List Archives: http://sourceforge.net/mailarchive/forum.php?forum_id=2995 List Info: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/squirrelmail-users