Freron MailMate

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  benny August 1st, 2019 @ 07:51 AM

  • State changed from “new” to “bluesky”

  In principle, I agree, but the nature of MailMate is that basically everything is a search (even an IMAP mailbox in MailMate is based on an internal search for the emails belonging to that mailbox). In other words, most parts of MailMate require searches to be near instantaneous. Some things could/should be more asynchronous, but my time would actually be better spent on optimizing searches in general (which is always on my todo lists).

  I assume you have quite a lot of emails in MailMate. One way to reduce search time is to setup a smart mailbox for the emails you most often search and then use the popup menu in the toolbar search field to limit default searches to happen in that mailbox.

  (Note that I'm not saying that I won't make anything asynchronous and if it was a quick fix then I would certainly do that for the toolbar search field. My point is just that the main problem is that the search is slow for large message stores. You would still have to wait for the result if it was happening asynchronously.)

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  Alexey Zakhlestin August 1st, 2019 @ 11:52 AM

  Thanks benny,

  I understand that "asynchronous" wouldn't make things faster. But it will definitely make things smoother and lead to much better UX.

  Overhead of passing data between threads is negligible in comparison to actual search process, so executing search on the main thread doesn't really buy you any performance either.

  I also understand that past architectural choices could have made such change non-trivial (I have 20 years of software architectural choices myself) :)

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  benny August 1st, 2019 @ 12:12 PM

  I didn't mean to say that it bought me any performance, but changing it to be asynchronous would currently be very non-trivial :)