Re: [Evolution] evolution REALLY slow against local courier IMAP server

[Not Zed <notzed ximian com>]

Depends on how much mail/memory you have as to how 'fast' 'local' will
be.  So without that information I can suggest nothing.

FWIW there's no practical reason (apart from say some bugs in the code)
not to go straight to the maildirs.

On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:28, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> For reasons that I won't go into, I've installed courier IMAP on my
> laptop, and I've evolution (1.4.4) using the localhost IMAP server
> instead of having it go directly against the Maildirs themselves.  And
> it is REALLY, REALLY slow.
>
> when I click "send and receive, up pops the "send & receive mail"
> dialog, and the "Server: 127.0.0.1, Type: imap" progress bar doesn't
> move, but takes 30+ seconds to go away, and while it is up, I have a
> "scanning folders in "IMAP server 127.0.0.1" message in the status bar
> of evo's main window.   WHY?  anyone know??  I would have thought that
> using a LOCAL (i.e. 127.0.0.1) IMAP server would be very fast.
>
> the same thing happens when I go from one mailbox to another.  
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on why I might be seeing this really
> slow behaviour, or how I can fix it?
>
> TIA
>
>
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