Is dimap required for calendar functions

[Richard Bos]

Op woensdag 6 juli 2005 22:15, schreef Till Adam:
> > Till,
> >
> > thanks a lot for your swift reply, that's always higly appreciated (any
> > reason you took it from the list?).
>
> I didn't mean to. Probably my shitty MUA ;).
>
> > In other words: dimap is required for the resource folders, such as:
> > "Kolab Server/inbox/Calendar"
> > "Kolab Server/inbox/Journal"
> > "Kolab Server/inbox/Tasks"
> >
> > But not for regular email, is that phrased correctly?  That's what I
> > expected. Is that because korganizer needs the emails in resource folders
> > to construct the ical files?
>
> Yeah, pretty much. Getting them from the imap server each time they need to
> be dealt with is dangerous and slow, due to the asynchronous nature of
> online imap. Which is why having them cached locally makes things much more
> robust.

Sounds pretty difficult to maintain and keep in sync (that mean praise to the 
kde-devs, that have been able get it under control!).  Does it mean that I as 
user should not touch the contents of the resource folders?  In that case, 
how does Kontact take care that old entries are deleted and that the resource 
folders don't grow too large in size (okay the entries are small, but many 
entries are still making a big file).  And if the user should not touch the 
resource folders why does the docu states, to make them visible?


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Richard Bos
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