[Gmailagent-devel] Re: libgmail 0.1.1 is out

[Stas Z <sta...@gm...>]

On 9/13/05, Stas Z <sta...@gm...> wrote:
> On 9/13/05, Richard Jones <jo...@gm...> wrote:
>=20
> > > > Whilst I'm writing to you I have a feature request, it seems the on=
ly
> > > > way of getting the message body for a message in a thread is to do =
the
> > > > equivalent of "show original",
> [...]
> > > > This would lead to a dramatic speed improvement for me.
> > > How would  that lead to a speed improvement ?
> > > Gmail itself doesn't support "body only view".
[...]
> Hmmm, it seems we can only retrieve the "original page".
> We will look into this.
[....]
> I think we try to get other views too.
After I did some checking it seems that it doesn't make any difference in s=
peed
what kind of view you choose.
Every message must be fetch from Gmail when it's needed. I mean that it doe=
sn't
matter that we show the original, if speed is concerned.

However I'm not sure that my reasoning is sound, so Waseem if you have
a few minutes
I would like to get your ideas about this.

Stas

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