Re: [Evolution] Slow Evolution - OWA - Evolution connector

[Hans van der Merwe <hvdmerwe sunspace co za>]

On Mon, 2007-01-22 at 13:28 -0700, Robin Laing wrote:
> Hello,
>
> I was forced to Evolution from Thunderbird when we moved to exchange 
> server from pop/smtp.  Our exchange server doesn't have pop or imap 
> access so this means the Linux users have to use Outlook Web Access to 
> get our mail.  This is a very slow and tedious problem.
>
> At first I was using FC4 but have since upgraded to FC6 and evolution 2.8.2.
>
> I had a large series of filters based on how I sorted my mail in 
> Thunderbird.  I would access my mail in the mornings when getting into 
> work and be reading in a few minutes, even when there were over 1000 
> messages.  Now it takes a very long time to get to a point of reading my 
> mail.  As an example, I started to access my mail at 13:08 with an inbox 
> of 76 messages.  I have a very basic filter to move all my mail to a 
> local folder.  This process took 6 minutes.  In the morning, I am 
> looking at almost an hour.  This is not productive.
>
> I tried to filter on the server but I just ended up with a mess and was 
> accused of crashing the server once.  This was due to the message line 
> on the bottom of the UI was indicating 100% complete when it was only 
> 100% complete on that particular message.
>
> As a comparison, I copied and saved the messages to a mailbox that I 
> accessed via Thunderbird and I could run multiple filters in seconds, 
> including the mouse clicks to make them run.
>
> Now, I have searched and searched for information on the 
> evolution-connector but didn't have any luck.  Where can I find 
> documentation on this application?  I didn't find anything on the Novell 
> site.
>
> As for the running of evolution, how do I get it to move the messages 
> faster automatically?  A simple filter to take all my mail in my inbox 
> and move it to a different local box takes forever as stated.  I think 
> if I disable spamassasin it would work faster but the message posted to 
> the mail list on December 12th never got a response, at least not to the 
> list.  Of course any reply may have gone to the OP instead of both or 
> the list.
>
> I have many other issues but these are the two that are affecting my 
> productivity and ability to even look at evolution as an email client.

I have the same prob here - I use Thunderbird at home (GMail POP) and
forced to use Evolution in our MS only office.  Evolution (2.8.2) is
slow and crashes regularly (well not Evol, the backend service) - I
think its because the Junk filter and Mesg Filters are trying to move
the same messages.
At the moment I have a working solution - I open Evol, wait for all
messages (headers) to download, then wait for junk filter to complete -
then select all Inbox messages and hit Ctrl-Y (filter).
This seems to work most of the time.
I'm still debugging a bit - but will file a bug report when Im certain
about whats going on.


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