Re: [Evolution] Dealing with huge imap accounts / best practise?

[Pete Biggs <pete biggs org uk>]

> Hm, I wish I could avoid caches -- please help explaining the
> following behaviour, though:
>
> - Create a fresh IMAP account, local sync disabled (20.000+ emails
>   on the server, a lot of subfolders)
> - Use another mail client to move an email into a subdirectory of
>   that same IMAP account; in my case that mail was flagged read
> - In Evolution, search that mail from the top folder incl. all
>   subfolders, by entering the unique subject
> - BTW: Indeed, the status line displays something like server based
>   search... nice
> - Wait until all processes finish (10 minutes here)
>
> Result: Mail not found.
>
> - Try Send / Receive messages
> - This took 30 minutes
> - Search repeated as above
>
> Result: Mail not found.
>
> When I manually open the subfolder with that mail once, and then
> restart the search from the top folder it gets found.
>
> What is happening here? 

You say the status line says that it's a server based search - then
surely it is the server, not evolution, that is the issue?

Out of interest, those search times and send/receive look to be
excessive.  20k mails is not big - I have 100+k in a single folder; I
know the number of folders is important, but I have a fair few and I
can delete the cache folder and Evo will rebuild the message list in a
few minutes.  Are you on a particularly slow connection? Is the server
underpowered?  Do you have any control over the server?

P.