[maemo-developers] Modest/TinyMail problems (continue from the blog comments)

[From: Philip Van Hoof]

On Wed, 2008-06-25 at 10:48 +0200, Luca Olivetti wrote:
> En/na Philip Van Hoof ha escrit:
> 
> > Polymer does a similar thing to Mulberry. The technique is indeed very
> > interesting and could be adapted to work with offline operations too, if
> > downloading is allowed to take place in the background and if when
> > scrolling up and down a higher priority task to get the visible items
> > can be scheduled upfront.
> 
> I just tried Polymer under windows (btw, try googling for Polymer and 
> you don't have a chance of finding it, Infotrope Polymer is the right 
> search term) and it's a bit too basic: either I couldn't find the option 
> or it doesn't even allow to select the sort order, neither it can thread 
> the messages.

That might be because your IMAP server doesn't support either THREAD nor
SORT.

Dave is making Infotrope (and derived E-mail clients like Polymer and
Telomer) mostly for testing IMAP servers that he develops at the place
where he works (at Isode).

He's mostly interested in top-notch interaction between the client and
the IMAP server (pipelining and testing them in combination with newer
Lemonade features).

Experimentally the client has a lot of value, since it shows how modern
IMAP usage would outperform any other offering (Blackberry or Windows
Mobile E-mail clients with Exchange) several times in a row.

> As per the tablet it says that Telomer (the tablet version of Polymer) 
> is even more stripped down, with several key features not working 
> (though I didn't try it yet).

Yeah, the E-mail clients done by Dave are mostly for doing nifty
experiments.

I've put Dave in CC, so that he can again feel proud about how cool I
think his experimental E-mail clients are.

> I'm currently tunneling imap through ssh with compression enabled.


That's a good temporary solution indeed. Note that your SSL layer might
already do compression, in which case the SSH tunnel will just add
latency to your connection.


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