On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:49 -0500, Jeffrey Stedfast wrote: > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 14:18 -0400, Patrick O'Callaghan wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-03-16 at 11:09 -0600, Ben Davis wrote: > > > I'm currently using Thunderbird/Sunbird as my PIM managers, and I'm > > > wanting to switch to Evolution because of its tight integration with the > > > desktop. However, there are several things that are keeping me from > > > switching at this point, and I was hoping someone might be able to > > > provide some workarounds, solutions, or perhaps just suggest to me a > > > different way of doing things. > > > > > > 1. IMAP seems VERY slow compared to Tbird. Sometimes when I switch > > > from one account to another, I have to wait while it re-loads my entire > > > inbox... Are there any options I can change to help speed things up? > > > > Evo is also doing a lot of local indexing, but I agree it seems > > noticeably slower than TBird for IMAP access. It's also a *lot* more > > brittle (quite frequently hangs while fetching mail for no obvious > > reason) though recent versions are improving. > > unfortunately, the problem is that our query to fetch summary info (info > used to populate the message-list) is a lot less efficient because it > queries for oodles more data than mozilla's (why? because users demand > more functionality - like mailing-list filtering/vfoldering, attachment > icons, etc which mean we have to query for the entire message header > than than just a few bits and pieces of it) > > so sadly, this is unlikely to improve much. ---- Maybe improved in a different way.
I was very unhappy with Evo 2.0.2 on FC3 and then I switched IMAP server from UW-IMAP to Cyrus-imapd and it would seem as though it's a brand new turbo charged evo. Granted that this was no easy chore but it does pay dividends...uw-imap is tired and old and cranky. Craig _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [email protected] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
