Re: [Evolution] evolution issues: slow and frequent crashing

[Art Alexion <art rhd org>]

On Thu, 2009-01-29 at 08:36 -0500, John Schmidt wrote:
> Art Alexion wrote: 
> > > The main problem is it's extremely slow when doing functions such as "Generating message list", 
> > > "Fetching summary information", "Storing folder" etc...
> > >     
> >
> > Are you on the same LAN as the server? Very slow for me, too (albeit, exchange) when accessing remotely 
> > from my laptop -- especially if it has been a while since I checked in with that computer. Very fast with 
> > the desktop on the LAN.
> >
> >   
> I'm on the same LAN.  I'm running evolution on my desktop and T-bird
> on my laptop.  No problems w/ the latter goirng through the same
> network paths.  As I said, it seems to be some recent change that's
> triggered this behavior.  It used to be very fast, now it's quite
> slow.
I don't use anything but exchange with evolution, so I can't comment on
their speed.  I assume, however, that Thunderbird is using POP or IMAP,
while Evo is trying to use the native protocol (you said Lotus Notes?),
so the performance is going to be different regardless of which MUA you
are using.


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