I've submitted two patches for gbuffy-0.2.6 to the maintainer. No response on either. I'm not sure if upstream is dead. Can Gentoo consider pulling these patches in, please? The first patch, whitespace-in-foldernames, was submitted 2005-03-16. The second, fixing a mistaken assumption about new mails, 2006-01-23. Will attach patches as files once this bug is filed, since the UI doesn't let me attach them now.
Created attachment 81493 [details, diff] Wrap folder-names in quotes in IMAP protocol
Created attachment 81494 [details, diff] Optimise new-mail fetching on large folders In gbuffy (0.2.6), there's a comment for imap.c:parse_fetch() which states: /* Ok, now fetch all the headers from the first UNSEEN through the * end of the mailbox. This could be lower bandwidth (maybe) by first * fetching all of the flags, and then only fetching the headers of * the messages which are new, but there is a lot of protocol crap * which would probably negate the lower bandwidth */ Unfortunately, when using a threaded mail-client and skipping some uninteresting threads which keep receiving email, the range of seen vs unseen mails can become rather large. The attached patch renames parse_fetch() to parse_fetch_range() and implements a new parse_fetch() which does a SEARCH first. In my testing, this takes the time to view 4 new mails in a large folder from over 10 seconds (thanks to the X-Face fetch bypassing server-side caches) down to less than 1 second. The extra protocol overhead consists of issuing SEARCH RECENT UNSEEN, taking the numerical ranges, assuming that the server hasn't done any doubled whitespace or other syntactical violations and just changing the spaces to commas, to issue a comma-separated sequence set to the subsequent FETCH. So really it's one extra command and a slightly longer variation on an existing command.
I'm going to be the maintainer for gbuffy-0.2.7 onwards, barring mishap. Please pull in the patches, since they're already in my repository for the next release; that release has some work to do to migrate to GTK2 so will take a little time. Thanks,
Thanks for the patches. These are in portage now as 0.2.6-r1. I'm looking forward to the next release.
