[Users] Only issue prevent claws-mail to be accepted in corporate

[Pierre Fortin]

On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 16:25:02 +0530 J. Bakshi wrote:

>On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 13:43:05 +0300
>Kertesz Laszlo <laszlo.kertesz at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> On Tue, 27 Mar 2012 11:41:44 +0200
>> Steffen Klemer <moh at gmx.org> wrote:
>>  
>> > I think this goes away when you select
>> > Configuration->Preferences->Receiving->Show Receive Dialogue->"Never"
>> > 
>> > 
>> > /Steffen
>> > 
>> 
>> No this does not goes away. The OP was talking about the fact that
>> Claws Mail UI has certain options greyed out while getting mail
>> (scanning folders) AND, bigger nuisance, prevents the user from
>> accessing mails until the scanning (and fetching of messages) is
>> completed.
>> 
>> I have a google account with lots of folders and i have to wait for CM
>> to scan all of them and get  new mails before i can see a message (or
>> open a folder for that matter) i clicked on. Also if i have
>> intermittent network connection (weak wifi signal,
>> disconnecting/reconnecting) and CM is in the middle of getting mail,
>> it outright freezes in the scanning phase for good and i have to kill
>> it because even the exit option is greyed out and the right-click exit
>> option does not  work. This is NOT google mail related, this is
>> reletaed to the fact that CM has a sort of single threaded approach to
>> mail receiving/fetching/scanning.
>> 
>> So, it would be good if the scanning phase took place in background
>> for good, and NOT interfere with the users actions AT ALL . Also, the
>> (temporary) loss of network connection should NOT freeze the scanning
>> process.

Alternatively, it would help if the account scans were scattered by
spreading them out somehow...  possible methods:
- wait N seconds between accounts
- spread account scans based on times between scans (can get complex in
  the case of many accounts with varying scan times)
At least, this would provide shorter periods of impact w/o requiring a
major rewrite.

HTH,
Pierre