[PATCH] IMAP: improve quickchanged() performance

[Sebastian Spaeth]

For each folder we were making a second IMAP request asking for the
latest UID and compared that with the highest UID in our
statusfolder. This catched the case that 1 mail has been deleted by
someone else and another one has arrived since we checked, so that the
total number of mails appears to not have changed.

I wonder if we want to capture this case in the quickchanged() case and
am throwing this patch in for discussion by removing the check. It
improves my performance from 8 to about 7.5 seconds per check (with lots
of variation) and we would benefit even more in the IMAP<->IMAP case as
we do one additional IMAP lookup per folder on each side then.

The downside is that we don't catch mails in the above scenario (someone
deleted a mail remotely and a new one arrived)

What do you think?
The patch is on top of the 2 patch-series that I just sent, but with
some fuzzy offset should apply to master as well.

Sebastian
P.S. Nicolas no need to review this commit message it wouldn't be
the final one ;-)

Signed-off-by: Sebastian Spaeth <Sebastian at SSpaeth.de>
---
 offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py |   18 ------------------
 1 files changed, 0 insertions(+), 18 deletions(-)

diff --git a/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py b/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
index 49362c8..abf6464 100644
--- a/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
+++ b/offlineimap/folder/IMAP.py
@@ -97,26 +97,8 @@ class IMAPFolder(BaseFolder):
             if maxmsgid != statusfolder.getmessagecount():
                 return True
 
-            if maxmsgid < 1:
-                # No messages; return
-                return False
-
-            # Now, get the UID for the last message.
-            response = imapobj.fetch('%d' % maxmsgid, '(UID)')[1]
         finally:
             self.imapserver.releaseconnection(imapobj)
-
-        # Discard the message number.
-        messagestr = response[0].split(' ', 1)[1]
-        options = imaputil.flags2hash(messagestr)
-        if not options.has_key('UID'):
-            return True
-        uid = long(options['UID'])
-        saveduids = statusfolder.getmessageuidlist()
-        saveduids.sort()
-        if uid != saveduids[-1]:
-            return True
-
         return False
 
     # TODO: Make this so that it can define a date that would be the oldest messages etc.
-- 
1.7.1