Re: [Evolution] Evolution performance bottleneck

[N B Day <nbday fastmail fm>]

On Wed, 2014-11-12 at 21:06 +0100, Harvey Nimmo wrote:
> Does anyone have an idea where I should look to find out why my
> Evolution is now so excruciatingly slow?
>
> I am running Evolution 3.12.7 under Gnome 3.14.1 on Opensuse 13.2
> (64-bit) on my desktop computer, having moved from Opensuse 13.1.  
>
> There are 2 email accounts, one under POP (deleting all mails from the
> POP server after downloading) and the other under EWS.
>
> On starting evolution, it seems that the EWS account works as expected,
> but the POP account mails are being downloaded one at a time needing
> about 2-3 minutes per email. Is there a time-out somewhere that I can
> tweak?
>
> I think my evolution configuration is a little screwed up anyway. None
> of the emails I delete are shown in the Wastebasket, but if I expunge
> the wastebasket it is obviously cleaning up something as it needs the
> appropriate time to store the folder.

Same basic setup here ... but no POP.  It has all worked very well for
me since I installed spamassassin (which doesn't get installed by
default for some reason).  Without spamassassin I would some times get a
race condition with "Unknown background operation" messages.  It seemed
to be spam-check related and installing sa *seems* to have cured it.
Maybe spam checking is holding your POP operations up.

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