slow when you first select an imap folder with a lot of messages simon writes: "downloading the contents of a IMAP folder for the first time is very slow i think the reason is that for every message, you update the message count in the UI (status bar)." "the message total and unread (lower right in the window) count goes up in increments of 1" "it seems a lot slower than it used to be, but maybe that's a mac os X thing too. it should be an easy kill; just update the UI on a timer, like you do for the progress bar" this might also be a problem with a pop3 inbox, or when building a summary file for a local folder, I haven't tried. it doesn't seem to be a problem for news, although we do update the status text quite a bit, if you download speed is fast. (we could do it less.)

I tweaked the folder loading code so that we don't display count notifications until we've finished loading the folder, but we still display the folder contents. I had to add a var which says whether to reroot the folder on the folder loaded notification.

fix checked in.