[Chandler-dev] What is next for Chandler desktop?

[Heikki Toivonen]

Andi Vajda wrote:
> On Mon, 10 Sep 2007, Brian Kirsch wrote:
>> With a fast connection,The Chandler Mail Service can download and
>> process 6,000+ messages before the
>> first 1,000 messages have been committed including notifications
> 
> True but how often does someone have to download 6000 messages ?
> 1000 messages ?

Speed is a barrier of adoption to some. If it took me hours to download
my mailbox the first time to try a new email program I would probably
give up, unless there was some promise of killer features I'd really
want to have.

Also, I get a few hundred emails a day (I am on many mailing lists),
most of which I only need to scan the summaries to decide if I need to
read. In Thunderbird it takes just a few seconds to download all the
headers, and less than a minute for the anti-spam engine to download the
contents of all these messages to mark some as spam. This is all so fast
I don't generally need to think about speed. So I think that if some
email client took longer than a minute to deal with all that I would be
tempted to look for a faster client.

On the other hand, with people that only get a dozen or so emails a day
and check email once or twice a day this wouldn't be an issue. But then
again, these users don't need much from their email application in the
first place.

-- 
  Heikki Toivonen


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