[Evolution] 2.0 fetching POP3 mail too SLOW

JP Rosevear jpr@novell.com
Mon, 06 Dec 2004 12:15:32 -0500


On Mon, 2004-12-06 at 11:05 -0200, Raul Dias wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I switched to Evolution 2.0.1 from 1.4.x and I am really pleased with
> what I am seen.
> 
> One strange thing I noticed is that fetching mail takes about 1
> sec/message and sometimes 2 secs/3 messages.
> 
> This is really slow comparated with 1.4.x.  I can live with that if this
> is how it is supposed to work, but it is a huge step back.
> 
> It might have to do that I have 11GB of mail in evolution it got
> converted recently due to the upgrade.
> 
> So, is this slowliness right?

It sounds like you might have spam checking turned on with remote tests
also on (remote tests really slow things down).  Check
tools->settings->mail preferences->junk.

-JP
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JP Rosevear <jpr@novell.com>
Novell, Inc.