Subject: Q: Will Pine 3.90 be faster?

From: "M. Hotti" <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 14:44:52 +0300 (EDT)

One thing that has been bothering me all the time I've been using
Pine 3.89 - is that Pine is awfully slow when jumping to one 
incoming folder to another. I have set up seven incoming folders 
and each time I use [TAB] to change the folder, I get these
messages; "No more unread messages... go to another folder Y/N?"
and "Expunge deleted messages Y/N" which seem to stay on screen
forever and slow down the action.

Is there a way (maybe a variable in the source code) which affects
the time these messages stay on screen? 

-Marko-

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Marko Hotti <[email-masked]>		University of Oulu
						Faculty of Medicine

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 26 Aug 1994 10:03:32 -0700 (PDT)

Marko,
Unfortunately, the delays are not artifacts of the message display
routine.  In 3.90 you will be able to set a feature to avoid the
confirmation prompt when TABing between folders (you can do that already
for eXpunge on quitting), but the real improvement will have to wait for
Pine 4.0, which will implement many of the new features in the IMAP4 spec. 
In particular, IMAP4 specifies an efficient way for Pine to ask the mail
server which folders have new/recent messages in them, and also has a new
primitive to allow closing a folder much more quickly.  (Right now Pine has
to actually open the next incoming folder to see if there are any recent
messages.)

-teg