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Bug 207011 - cancellable imap searches
cancellable imap searches
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 672175
Product: evolution
Classification: Applications
Component: Mailer
unspecified
Other All
: Normal minor
: Future
Assigned To: evolution-mail-maintainers
Evolution QA team
evolution[IMAP]
Depends on: 216927
Blocks:
 
 
Reported: 2001-08-10 23:09 UTC by Luis Villa
Modified: 2014-02-19 14:19 UTC
See Also:
GNOME target: ---
GNOME version: ---


Description Luis Villa 2001-08-10 23:09:52 UTC 
1) do a time consuming search, like 'test' in body of a large IMAP folder.
2) realize you really wanted to search for 'pr0n', and so hit 'search->show
all' to start another search.
3) note that in the progress bar, there are now two 'Updating Message List'
status messages. Most of the time, repeated 'search->show all's will result
in multiple 'Updating Message Lists'.
4) It /appears/ (though I haven't tested extensively) that what happens is
that the searches are queued. 

I /think/ that the proper behavior here is for the second search attempt to
cancel the first one, instead of queuing.
Comment 1 Ettore Perazzoli 2001-08-11 20:34:11 UTC 
Mailer bug.
Comment 2 Not Zed 2001-10-05 23:32:26 UTC 
i dont think we can even cancel imap searches.
Comment 3 Luis Villa 2001-10-10 21:01:36 UTC 
OK. Not really sure why this was major anyway; I think maybe because
some of the stuff was blocking in some really bad ways.
Comment 4 Dan Winship 2001-10-12 19:43:43 UTC 
OE has a nice trick for things like this, which is to open a second
IMAP connection and do the slow operation from there. Then if the
user cancels it, it can just close that connection and leave the
original one intact. There are a bunch of situations in which this
could help out our IMAP performance.
Comment 5 Not Zed 2001-10-12 19:48:32 UTC 
Oh the pain.

Just thinking of the synchronisation issues here, its bad enough with
one socket open :)

Also some servers dont like you to connect to the same account twice,
and boot the other one off .
Comment 6 Peter Williams 2002-08-28 21:16:47 UTC 
This isn't happening any time soon due to the problems associated with
IMAP.
Comment 7 Gerardo Marin 2002-11-30 03:50:57 UTC 
Futuring
Comment 8 Milan Crha 2014-02-19 14:19:13 UTC 
This is fixed by bug #672175, thus I mark this as a duplicate of it.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of bug 672175 ***