Comments on: IMAP-based diplomatic incidents

By: fred

fred — Fri, 10 Jun 2005 08:30:30 +0000

I think we proved here scientifically why men die earlier than women on this earth…

By: hoa

hoa — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 23:42:49 +0000

should we conclude that men sleep less, then caleçon ?

By: Colin

Colin — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 16:02:49 +0000

Hoa, thanks! I thought I was the only one crazy enough to wake up at 4 AM and go hack instead of sleeping. I already discussed on the subject with one of my coworkers and he told me he does that too, that made two of us. Now we’re at least three, and I feel less alone. I may not be an alien after all :-)

Concerning rebuild, it’s a major PITA right now, especially since it can happen automatically after a crash. That must be painful for our IMAP users… Concerning IMAP in a more general manner, I have the feeling this code is slowly turning into spagetti code, but if at least it works it’ll still be better: it’s already crappy imho.

Alfons is offline since a few weeks, I don’t have details but he said he’s really busy with real life stuff. I hope we’ll see him again soon.

By: hoa

hoa — Thu, 09 Jun 2005 15:55:32 +0000

One of the well-known strategies for to handle life with someone and geekness is to go to bed with her and wake up some time later.
Speed issue could be solved by trying FETCH envelope, don’t know if it works on all IMAP server but for Cyrus, that’s fine.
for rebuild, of folder, fetch of all headers of all folders should also be avoided but for this architecture will have to be thought again.
fetch of message list should only be done on-demand (I mean, when opening the folder).

PS: where is alfons ?
PS 2: I should make a first useable version of etpanX.