Re: [Evolution-hackers] Poor Performance with Connector

[Dan Winship <danw ximian com>]

> Since the connector uses the Outlook Web thingy, it performs
> dramatically worse than hitting the exchange server directly via IMAP.
> 
> I see a huge performance hit when my users(who never delete email BTW!
> upwards of 2 to 3 MB)  stroll through their folders.  It can take up to
> 2 to 3 minutes to retrieve the summary info for the folder...The Windows
> Outlook client is much "snappier" retrieving the information in a matter
> of seconds.

Yes, unfortunately, we can't use the same interface Outlook does,
because it's completely undocumented.

> Is this normal behaviour, or is their something I can do to make the
> Evolution experience closer to the Outlook experience?
> 
> Thanks in advance, BTW I don't have any of these issues on my client
> since I purge irrelevant email weekly(my mail is only about 100 KB).

That's your answer. Connector doesn't deal well with very large folders,
and is not likely to in the near future. Sorry.

-- Dan