Re: [Evolution] gmail imapx extremely slow?

[Patrick O'Callaghan <poc usb ve>]

On Tue, 2021-05-18 at 16:56 -0400, Paul Smith wrote:
> Has anyone else noticed that accessing gmail via imapx from Evolution
> has gotten extremely slow a number of times over the last week or so?
> Sometimes it's fine, then it will be unbearable for a few hours (or
> more), then it seems fine again.
>
> Probably it doesn't matter but FYI, I'm using Ubuntu 20.04 with
> Evolution 3.36.4.
>
> I have two gmail addresses; one a personal address and one a
> corporate
> address.  The personal account is fine: no problems.
>
> But the corporate address is ridiculous.  I'll add below a log of
> imapx:io where it took 30 seconds to download and display one,
> relatively small, message.
I also have both a personal and a corporate account. Neither is showing
any problems.

> Also I've noticed that Evolution seems to be constantly rescanning
> all
> my folders, including ones that are VERY large like my gmail "Sent"
> folder, and this rescan takes forever.  Is there some setting I
> should
> use to reduce this?  I only need to check for NEW messages, I don't
> need to rescan all the already-known messages in the folder; isn't
> that
> possible?
>
> Actually I'd be happy enough to NEVER automatically scan my Sent
> folder
> and only retrieve it when I actually visit it (which is rarely).  Can
> that be done?

Click on Folder->Subscriptions and uncheck the Sent folder. You may
also want to disable that folder in Gmail's IMAP settings.

poc