delays opening messages/bug report

[Richard van der Hoff]

Hello...

Don't know if this is Mpro's or RemoteNB's problem - but I think it's
probably RemoteNB's.

The issue is this:  I have quite a number of folders, which take quite a
while for RemoteNB to scan (of the order of several seconds).  This hapens
in the background, which is fine until one tries to do something else at
the same time, such as open a message;  there is then no indication that
anything is happening (except for the server's HDD light flicking), and
the user is left wondering if he did actually press the spacebar or
double-click, and also gets bored waiting.

Worse, if I try to open another message in this period, I eventually end
up with two copies of the _second_ message, and Mpro is thoroughly
confused as to what the first message was.  Also if I tried to open the
message from an existing message window (ie space/right arrow), then
closing it during the problem period results in a Messenger internal
inconsistency (no. 23 IIRC).  I guess these are bugs that need fixing?

Obviously the ideal would be to interrupt the scan to fetch the message,
or even to let them happen in parallel (which I guess would require a
second connectiuon to the server); I don't know how possible this would
be.  Failing that, some sort of indication that something is actually
happening?

Cheers,

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Richard van der Hoff              | mailto:rav21 at cam.ac.uk
Jesus College, Cambridge, England | http://www.jesus.cam.ac.uk/~rav21
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