140536 - Downloading IMAP headers for many msgs is very slow

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 102797

(MailNews Core :: Networking: IMAP, defect)

Description

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

** Observed with 2002-04-25 MacOS X 1.0 branch build **

On my G4 Mac, if I try to download IMAP server headers for
about 6000 msgs. I can get that done in less than 30 seconds
on a Windows build. I tried the same thing with the recent
MacOS X build and it took around 20 minutes to download 
the same number of headers. I don't know what is causing this but
this is way too slow and makes the OS X client unusable for
Mail.

Is this something that is being worked on? 
Maybe there is a workaround?

Comment 1

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

By the way I have seen this behavior before on Mac OS X
builds and so this is nothing new to me. 

Comment 2

[beanladen]

Seeing this also on Solaris with POP3, many
collisions on slower network, maybe too much
interaction (because of a bug) with the server ?

Comment 3

[Katsuhiko Momoi]

With POP3 I understand a bit of sloweness because you need to download the
messages themselves. But for IMAP, we download only message headers. That should
be much much faster. 

Comment 4

[John Unruh]

Looks like a dupe of bug 102797

Comment 5

[Jo Hermans]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 102797 ***