291547 - [rfe] "new" message prefetching for imap

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Thunderbird :: General, enhancement)

Description

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3

[rfe] "new" message prefetching for imap

would it be possible to prefetch messages (like darin prefetches the "next" page
with link prefetching in firefox)?

here's what I imagine for an imap user:

after loading a message into the message page, they will read it.  after the
message load is done, fire off a fetch of the next new (or unread?) message. 
when I am done reading, I will probably be going to read that next message
anyways.  the load can happen while I am reading.

I use imap and I don't use offline, I guess offline would already do this for me.

hmm, but I do use bayesian, so we are fetching something before I read it!  yet,
I don't seem to be getting a perf win from that fetch (the message is not in my
cache, I don't think.  maybe it is, and I'm not noticing it.  but we still seem
to hit the server even though I have downloaded the message for spam analysis.)


Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[(not reading, please use [e-mail] instead)]

I did a little more thinking, and would "pre-fetching" remove the "new"
attribute of a message?  (then again, offline would do the same thing)

Comment 2

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Scott MacGregor]

re-opening Seth's RFE. 

Comment 5

[David :Bienvenu]

this is essentially fixed by imap autosync