Re: [Evolution] Evolution performance bottleneck

[Thomas Mittelstaedt <tmstaedt t-mittelstaedt de>]

Am Mittwoch, den 12.11.2014, 21:06 +0100 schrieb Harvey Nimmo:
> 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.
>
> Cheers
> Harvey
>
>  
>
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You may consider using something like fetchmail,
http://www.fetchmail.info/, for your pop accounts and then set up 
a local mailbox account under evolution pointing to the file where
fetchmail stores the emails. I used this in the past and worked very
well. The code for pop may be orphaned a bit in evolution.

-- 
thomas