Michael and Ted, thanks for the advice! It was the vfolders that were killing IMAP performance.
The default vfolders that were added for free when I upgraded to 1.20 were called "unread mail" and "unimportant mail". I didn't have them before and I don't use them ever, so I deleted them and, voila, the insane checking and rechecking went away. Speed is back to normal. May I be excused from deinstalling my harddrive to test 1.08? OK, for me, the conclusions from this thread are: - It was the new vfolders that were causing slow IMAP in 1.20 v.s. 1.08; UW IMAP was probably a total red herring. - Vfolders should not be added unless you ask for them. This will significantly lower the blood pressure of Ximian employees. - The hang due to disconnects is not a problem with Linux but a bug in evolution. I will submit a bug report on that. Thank God it's over! Scott On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 21:09, Michael J. Carter wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-20 at 20:10, ted targosz wrote: > > > When I got rid of those pesky vFolders on IMAP... It made a HUGE > > difference. Selecting folders and messages is now many times faster. > > I just noticed that 1.2 had installed two 'default' vfolders. I don't > remember their names but I believe they referred local mailboxes. I > found that when I deleted these, my IMAP performance improved (mostly > switching between large folders. > > Does this make sense? > > mjc -- Scott Otterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ evolution maillist - [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.ximian.com/mailman/listinfo/evolution
