[Imap-uw] Outlook deadlock

[Michael Cashwell]

On Sep 18, 2007, at 6:22 PM, Oscar del Rio wrote:

> Mark Crispin wrote:
>
>> I doubt very much that the vast majority of users think "I want  
>> all my email, including all the spam with graphics attachments,  
>> downloaded to my hard drive before I even get the chance to look  
>> at it.  I especially love this when I am paying packet charges,  
>> because my high Internet bill means that I am A Very Important  
>> Person."
>
> I guess it would be nice if you could easily configure Thunderbird  
> to be a true IMAP client when needed (on a slow connection) or do  
> its local caching at other times (on a fast connection).

The way I describe this to people is to explain that "caching" is not  
the same as "prefetching". The former is just a (possibly size- 
limited) copy of data that needed to be downloaded from the server  
for other reasons. The latter is a process that pulls down everything  
so one can read mail offline. True caching helps when on a low- 
bandwidth connection while prefetching hurts.

>> I also doubt that many of them think "gee, when I delete a whole  
>> bunch of messages at once I want to wait several minutes while  
>> they are all copied to the Trash mailbox.  I just *love* watching  
>> that animation of stuff being moved."
>
> Recently I learned the Shift-Delete key shortcut in Thunderbird  
> that deletes without copying to Trash.  It is a real time saver!

A handy option. But it would come at the cost of not being able to undo.

-Mike