Pretty much confirmed it is the Global Catalog Name Server setting for me. If it's available (via VPN), Evolution is down right speedy. If it is not, it takes forever to load.
This should time out much faster, or better yet, only try to contact it when doing things in the Global Address book (there's no reason to try and ping before that). -- Slow startup - "Fetching summary information for new messages" https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/60901 You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Desktop Bugs, which is a bug assignee. -- desktop-bugs mailing list desktop-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/desktop-bugs