Comment 1 for bug 698254

I am wary of a literal online mode. A fundamental design decision is to have no networking in the user interface because lags are painful. Even more so if you target in particular users with a slow connection.

I set a limit of fetching the last 500 messages now, which greatly improves the situation and still is a lot. Note that important, ie. starred messages and new messages are not affected by the limitation and ancient starred messages will always be available.