Re: message list retrieval

> What you can do is to split the returned mailmessage_list into several 
> (you have to build up the mailmessage_list yourself) and use 
> mailmessage_get_envelope_list() things.

I have looked through the documentation and grepped through all the
sources in the libetpan directory, but can't find a reference to
anything similar to get_envelope_list.  Might it be under a different
name?
 
> If you fetch the headers using mailmessage_get_envelope_list(), you 
> could do the sorting (but you need to provide a custom function to 
> choose the kind of sorting). Fetching headers in IMAP using the 
> mailmessage_get_envelope() should be fast enough on most servers.
> That does not do a FETCH request for each message. That will fetch the 
> (IMAP) ENVELOPE in one request, which is optimized (or can be optimized) 
> on most IMAP servers.

Excellent.  That's what I was hoping for.

Thanks,
Luke


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