uPortal IRC Logs-2012-02-28

[09:31:15 CST(-0600)] <dd_> hello

[09:31:36 CST(-0600)] <dd_> is it possible to set the default column layout for all users? in uportal 3.2.4

[12:18:36 CST(-0600)] <dd_> hello

[12:19:18 CST(-0600)] <dd_> is anyone here familiar with the email-preview portlet? https://wiki.jasig.org/display/PLT/Email+Preview+Portlet

[12:19:33 CST(-0600)] <dd_> looking for a way to limit the amount of emails fetched over imap

[12:19:50 CST(-0600)] <dd_> some users have thousands and it is slowing everything down

[12:19:51 CST(-0600)] <athena1> what specifically are you trying to limit?

[12:20:11 CST(-0600)] <athena1> it shouldn't actually be downloading all email

[12:20:49 CST(-0600)] <dd_> not downloading but getting the headers i guess, however imap pulls in information about the emails

[12:21:12 CST(-0600)] <dd_> we found that it really slows down when users have 1000+ emails

[12:22:02 CST(-0600)] <athena1> definitely appreciate the report - i don't know offhand what's causing that slowness

[12:22:17 CST(-0600)] <athena1> wondering if maybe it's trying to use headers to order messages?

[12:22:35 CST(-0600)] <dd_> looking for an option similar to this http://code.google.com/p/email-preview-portlet/wiki/ConfigurationGuide portlets max.total.messages property

[12:26:15 CST(-0600)] <athena1> that older portlet actually does manually download headers to do sorting, but this one doesn't

[12:27:07 CST(-0600)] <dd_> yeah, been searching around because i figured this sounds like a problem that other universities would have?

[12:29:22 CST(-0600)] <dd_> had another question too. in 3.2.4 is it possible to set the default column layout for all present and future users?

[12:30:36 CST(-0600)] <athena1> like the default column layout for new tabs?

[12:30:45 CST(-0600)] <athena1> it'd probably require a change to the UpdatePreferencesServlet

[12:30:59 CST(-0600)] <dd_> yeah, i'd like it be set to 2 equal width columns by default