Re: [Evolution] Retrieving message - when looking at emails

[Ralf Mardorf <silver bullet zoho com>]

On Fri, 2021-05-28 at 08:34 +0100, Gerard Ceruti wrote:
> Evolution :  3.38.1-1 
> Ubuntu 20.10
> Gnome 3.38.3
>
> Hi
>
> When looking at my emails , I get a message in the viewing  panel "
> retrieving message XXXXXXXXXX" then after a short time the email is
> shown.
>
> Any idea what is causing the slight delay, what can I do to speed up
> the display of the emails

Hi,

I'm running Evolution 3.40.1 on an Arch Linux openbox session, used are
healthy SATA 6Gib/s SSDs, 8 GiB RAM on a dual-core 6.60.3 "Intel(R)
Celeron(R) CPU G1840 @ 2.80GHz".

$ uname -a
Linux archlinux 4.19.190-rt79-0.300-cornflower #1 SMP PREEMPT RT Fri, 14 May 2021 16:51:46 +0200 x86_64 
GNU/Linux

Stored are way more than 100000 emails, POP accounts only.

Usually "generating message list and retrieving message" shows up very
short, a fraction of a second or a whole second, not annoying at all,
when selecting a folder, just sometimes it stays for an annoying while,
several seconds.

I'm using the GTK3 branch of Claws Mail on the same machine, with the
same POP accounts, but less stored emails. When selecting a folder by
Claws, it usually takes many seconds, if not tens of seconds, very
seldom it's that fast as Evolution is.

Assuming you access off-line IMAP or POP emails, check if the drive is
healthy. If the drive is ok, it's probably just the common Linux
bloatware issue and a computer that has not enough horse power.

Regards,
Ralf