On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:09 -0600, Ben Davis wrote:I'm currently using Thunderbird/Sunbird as my PIM managers, and I'm wanting to switch to Evolution because of its tight integration with the desktop. However, there are several things that are keeping me from switching at this point, and I was hoping someone might be able to provide some workarounds, solutions, or perhaps just suggest to me a different way of doing things. 1. IMAP seems VERY slow compared to Tbird. Sometimes when I switch from one account to another, I have to wait while it re-loads my entire inbox... Are there any options I can change to help speed things up?Evo is also doing a lot of local indexing, but I agree it seems noticeably slower than TBird for IMAP access. It's also a *lot* more brittle (quite frequently hangs while fetching mail for no obvious reason) though recent versions are improving.
unfortunately, the problem is that our query to fetch summary info (info used to populate the message-list) is a lot less efficient because it queries for oodles more data than mozilla's (why? because users demand more functionality - like mailing-list filtering/vfoldering, attachment icons, etc which mean we have to query for the entire message header than than just a few bits and pieces of it) so sadly, this is unlikely to improve much.
2. In Thunderbird, I have an IMAP folder for "Junk, Sent, Trash, and Drafts," and these special folders are configured respectively. I don't really like how "Junk" and "Trash" in Evo are simply VFolders that show me emails "marked" as deleted or junk. If I use squirrelmail to check my email from somewhere else, I then don't have a "Trash" folder to keep deleted emails, and likewise for "Junk".True. IMAP is better at "mark-and-expunge" deletion that "move to a Trash folder" model, but it would be nice to have a choice (with TBird you can do it either way, but you can't hide the marked messages).
this is in bugzilla as a feature request item (don't recall the request # off the top of my head) -- Jeffrey Stedfast Evolution Hacker - Novell, Inc. fejj ximian com - www.novell.com
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