A few questions

[Ben Laughton]

In message <yekd7qnhglw.fsf at elva.cyberscience.com>
          Tom Hughes <tom at compton.nu> wrote:

> In article <6748ec8649.blaughto at blaughton.cam.pace.co.uk>, Ben
> Laughton <ben.laughton at pace.co.uk> writes:

> > Marking articles as read seems very slow.
[snip]

> Marking as read shouldn't involve RemoteNB at all at the moment as
> that is something which Messenger tracks itself.

Ah right.  <fx: digs out IMAP spec which I looked at ages ago> I thought
that maybe RemoteNB was using the IMAP \Seen flag to mark messages as
read on the server, which might have accounted for the speed.

> > While polling for new messages is much quicker than it used to be,
> > it still seems to freeze my machine for around 0.5 - 1 seconds.
> > Usually, this is fine and I don't notice it, but it's a bit
> > frustrating if I'm in the middle of typing something.

> It really shouldn't freeze the machine as it uses non-blocking socket
> calls. You may find that the next version will help somewhat though
> as it allows client requests from Messenger to interupt scans for new
> mail.

I remember you saying this when I complained about the polling speed
before.  I'd always meant to compile a debug build of the Internet
module to see if that could reveal more about what was going on, but
it's one of the many things I never got around to...

> > Is there any way to make RemoteNB move deleted mail to a 'trash'
> > folder?

> Not at the moment. This isn't really the IMAP way, although some other
> clients do allow it. I believe Messenger does do this with MsgServe
> doesn't it, so I guess it could be added for RemoteNB as wel if people
> want.

Yes, Messenger does do this with MsgServe.  I thought Marcel did, but
I've just checked and it doesn't.  I missed this feature this morning
when I was going though my email 'on auto-pilot' and inadvertantly
deleted something I wanted to keep :(.

> > Could group subscription be made to behave more along the lines of how
> > it does with MsgServe (ie. allow you to show only newsgroups with a
> > certain substring in their name)?
>
> Setting the group patterns for the server should limit which groups
> are presented to you. If you mean that you want to further limit that
> in Messenger when subscribing then that's something we're looking
> at, mainly to solve the problems with handling subscriptions to a
> server carrying a full news feed.

Yep, I meant the latter.  It's quite awkward trying to find a group you
want to subscribe to buried amongst all the groups from a full(ish)
newsfeed!  Still, at least the window stays open between clicks on the
subscribe button (it doesn't with MsgServe, even if you use adjust),
which makes subscribing to a several groups in the same section of the
hierarch much easier...

Cheers,
  Ben