Re: [Evolution] all i want...

[John Schmidt <john_schmidt amis com>]

Patrick O'Callaghan wrote:
> On 03/02/09 04:46, Pete Biggs wrote:
> > I think what I'm trying to say is that my feeling is that generally 
> > Evo is not less stable now than it was before - there would be much, 
> > much more grouching here if it were - but I get the impression that 
> > either some "edge cases" are suffering or there are some particular 
> > oddities in  some isolated cases.
> I've always had problems opening very large IMAP folders (one on 
> Gmail, one not). In some previous Evos the entire UI would just 
> freeze. In this version the folders can take forever to "scan for new 
> messages" (typically just sitting at 0%), so much so that Evo often 
> starts a *second* scan, presumably because the server poll interval 
> has run out. Note that killing Evo and restarting immediately solves 
> the problem, which rather begs the question of why Evo can't just do 
> whatever it does without user intervention.
This is exactly what I'm seeing.  IMAP database size is 6.5 GB.  Takes 
forever to "scan for new messages", "fetching summary information" etc...
Switching folders takes 20 seconds or longer.  Pretty hard to use it 
with this level of performance.