On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:22 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote:
The reason the 'spool' thing is slow is that it needs to do things like fully re-scan the mailbox every time it opens it - being a global file, any other application may have altered it since it was last looked at, etc. The scan normally just checks to see if X-Evolution headers are there though - so it can find the messages when they're requested. But if any new messages are there, it has to rewrite the mailbox while it is still locked, so the x-evolution header and unique identifier isn't lost.Answering my own question On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 16:02 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Tue, 2005-03-29 at 09:47 +0800, Not Zed wrote: > > On Thu, 2005-03-24 at 10:21 +0800, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > > > > The thing is like this, everytime evo needs to refresh messages, (mbox > > > format) it needs to re-parse/re-indexes the folders. (This is esp. true > > > for /var/spool/mail/$whoami folders.) I get hang up every so often when > > > new messages are in the mail folder. > > > > That cannot be avoided if you chose this slow method of accessing your > > email. > > > > You should be using 'local delivery' option and copying mail into > > evolution itself. > > Okay.. I just re-looked at the options and I just noticed the "local > delivery" option. > > Pardon me but I don't get the explanation. > > Standard mbox > For reading and storing local main in external mbox spool mail > > local delivery > For retrieving(moving) local mail from standard mbox formatted spools > into folders managed by evolution > > Does local delivery means it will check /var/spool/mail/`whoami` for new > mails and then move those mails from that spool directory to the > Evolution's "On This Computer" folder? (in the Inbox Folder?) > > Currently what is happening is, all new mails gets sent to mbox > in /var/spool/mail/`whoami`, I scan that mbox for new mails and filter > those messages to "On this computer" 's respective folders under "INBOX"
> Does this local delivery means, evo will sort of like POP the mails from > the mbox spool and automatically transfer the emails into "On This > Computer" (& the respective folders?) > Okay.. I just tried this out and it seems like my last statement is true. I think this might just be better then. ( I learned a new thing today) But what happens to the Local Delivery Folder? It's still showing on the left pane and when I click on it, it keeps telling me.... "Loading"
Hmm, that just sounds like a bug, it definitely shouldn't show. It is probably 'confused' since you ran it and then changed the type. I suspect if you restart it will vanish properly.
