[Evolution] IMAP woes

[Joe Shaw <joe helixcode com>]

Hey gang, Ettore asked me to send this here.

I've been having usability issues with IMAP, particularly on large
mailboxes. My main mailbox that I use for testing has nearly 15000
messages, and is about 63 megs in size. When using IMAP, everytime I get
new mail in that box (which is pretty frequent), Evolution insists on
rebuilding my message view, which takes an unbearably long time, and takes
me away fromt he message I'm viewing. My IMAP experiences usually consist
of me getting the message view built, clicking on a message, waiting for
it to download and display, having it immediately rebuild the message
view, and take me back to the original message. VERY annoying. This
happens too for smaller mailboxes, although it takes less time to rebuild
the message view so it's a little more usable. I don't have these issues
(at least performance-wise) with a local store of comparable
size. Ideally, evolution would lazily rebuild the message
view. Regardless, these performance issues have been a barrier to me using
it as my everyday email client.

Thanks,
Joe