Re: [Evolution] Help me switch to evolution

[Craig White <craigwhite azapple com>]

On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:49 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote:
> 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.
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Maybe improved in a different way.

I was very unhappy with Evo 2.0.2 on FC3 and then I switched IMAP server
from UW-IMAP to Cyrus-imapd and it would seem as though it's a brand new
turbo charged evo. Granted that this was no easy chore but it does pay
dividends...uw-imap is tired and old and cranky.

Craig