Depends on how much mail/memory you have as to how 'fast' 'local' will
be. So without that information I can suggest nothing.
FWIW there's no practical reason (apart from say some bugs in the code)
not to go straight to the maildirs.
On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 13:28, Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper wrote:
> For reasons that I won't go into, I've installed courier IMAP on my
> laptop, and I've evolution (1.4.4) using the localhost IMAP server
> instead of having it go directly against the Maildirs themselves. And
> it is REALLY, REALLY slow.
>
> when I click "send and receive, up pops the "send & receive mail"
> dialog, and the "Server: 127.0.0.1, Type: imap" progress bar doesn't
> move, but takes 30+ seconds to go away, and while it is up, I have a
> "scanning folders in "IMAP server 127.0.0.1" message in the status bar
> of evo's main window. WHY? anyone know?? I would have thought that
> using a LOCAL (i.e. 127.0.0.1) IMAP server would be very fast.
>
> the same thing happens when I go from one mailbox to another.
>
> Does anyone have any thoughts on why I might be seeing this really
> slow behaviour, or how I can fix it?
>
> TIA
>
>
> --
>
> ,-----------------------------------------------------------------//
> | Jason 'vanRijn' Kasper :: Numbers 6:22-26
> `
> | All brontosauruses are thin at one end, much MUCH thicker
> | in the middle, and then thin again at the far end. That is
> | the theory that I have and which is mine, and what it is too.
> ,
> | bash$ :(){ :|:&};:
> `----------------------//
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