[sylpheed:30061] Re: App hangs while getting mails
Randy Dunlap
rdunlap at xenotime.net
Mon Sep 25 09:05:35 JST 2006
On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 18:08:30 -0500 Gene Goldenfeld wrote:
> "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb at cs.columbia.edu> wrote:
>
> >On Sun, 24 Sep 2006 21:07:10 +0200, Oliver Meißner-Knippschild
> ><lists.o at la-familia-grande.de> wrote:
> >
> >> Hi Folks,
> >>
> >> first of all I want to to thank Hiroyuki for developing this great
> >> application.
> >>
> >> But when composing a message and sylpheed auto-receives mails from
> >> various IMAP-servers there is no response from the composing-window.
> >> For me receiving mails is a procedure that takes about 30 to 40
> >> seconds. During this time I can't type and have to wait until all the
> >> imap-folders were looked up. Is there any solution to activate the
> >> "responsement" of the graphical components while receiving mails?
> >>
> >This is by far my biggest complaint about sylpheed -- that other
> >interactions are frozen while retrieving email and scanning folders for
> >new email.
>
> As well as while opening a link from an email, so there's not only a
> wait but focus has to be regained to Sylpheed.
Not directly related, I suppose (although maybe some kind of gtk
limitation, but I would doubt it): it would be really nice if
one could open/list/view more than one mail folder at one time.
---
~Randy
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