Subject: Re: inefficiency when saving messages remotely

From: [email-masked] (Logan Shaw)
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 18:07:07 GMT

In article <[email-masked]>,
Dominik Wujastyk <[email-masked]> wrote:
>I'm at home, using PC Pine (OS/2) to read stuff in my remote mailbox
>on the University machine.
>
>When I tag a whole bunch of messages and save them to a remote mail folder,
>it takes forever.  What seems to be happening is that Pine is sending each 
>message to my PC, and then back again to the remote folder.
>
>Pine is usually so good at handling the remote/local distinction elegantly. 
>This seems an anomalous failing.

Well, is it an IMAP mailbox or a POP mailbox?

If the latter, I'm going to guess (though I don't actually have any
direct knowledge) that the protocol doesn't give you much of a choice.

  - Logan
-- 
Logan Shaw, Unix Systems Administrator
"everybody / loves to see / justice done / on somebody else" (Bruce Cockburn)

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From: Terry Gray <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 1 Dec 1996 17:50:56 -0800 (PST)

Dominik,
Logan is right that we don't have enough info to help you.
If your inbox-path and folder collection both have the same IMAP server
specification, then Pine will issue an IMAP COPY command, in which case
the copy operation is local to the server.  Otherwise, the message(s) will
be pushed from Pine to the destination IMAP server via an IMAP APPEND
command.

-teg

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From: [email-masked] (Dominik Wujastyk)
Date: Sat, 30 Nov 1996 17:23:51 GMT

Dominik

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Best wishes,
Dominik