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speed of IMAP
by Simon Kenyon on Friday 20/May/2005, @01:09

i use kmail and now kontact for all my email and have done for many years now. i really like it. however (and this really is not a troll) i recently had to read my email under windows xp. so i fired up outlook express and configured it. the speed difference was striking. this was on my laptop (which can dual boot). so i know there was no difference in hardware.

this was remotely from my email server.
i tried disconnected IMAP again after i upgraded to 3.4 and while it had improved to the point of being usable, syncing remotely was too slow and i reverted back to ordinary IMAP.

just wondering what express is doing differently that makes it so much faster? has anyone analysed the server usage of various email clients to see if any improvements can be gleaned from that

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Re: speed of IMAP
by Carsten on Friday 20/May/2005, @07:35

Outlook (Express) can use it's own imap library which is of course optimized for this protocol. KMail has to use the kio infrastructure which is - as Till explained - not really made for imap.

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