On Tue, May 18, 2010 at 10:53, Dylan McCall
<dylanmccall@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
I'm really jealous of a lot of cell phone operating systems, to that
end. (Why do they get all the cool, simple stuff? It's no fair!).
The email clients in Android, iPhone OS and WebOS each have
functionality so they load the 20 most recent messages in your gmail
inbox, then there's a “Load more messages” option at the bottom of the
list which pulls in the next 20, and so on. Really slick, and
completely sensible.
Whether that design is suited to a desktop email client may be an
interesting discussion.
It's certainly how gmail's web-browser desktop interface works. I mostly use that on the desktop now, although something more native would be welcome.
The big problem with Evolution in particular is that it fetches headers for all the messages in an entire folder, so that it can get a correct message count (which still isn't correct, afaik), and so that their "virtual" trash and spam folders work as designed. That's fundamentally why Thunderbird does so much faster than evolution, it just asks the server for a message count, and trusts it. When you *open* a folder, it asks for all the (new) headers in it.
I'd consider trying thunderbird again, but I'm too hooked on gmail's labeling system, and that just doesn't map intuitively to IMAP folders right.