I can confirm this, too (Kubuntu Dapper), although it doesn't happen every time. I generally find that I need to type a paragraph or two before it kicks in. But on longer emails it usually happens.
The slowdown persists only in a particular message; once I hit send, the next message works normally (at least until that message, too, hits the slowdown). As a workaround, I usually copy my message into kate, finish typing it, paste back into kmail, and hit send. On at least one occasion I noticed that gam_server was occupying 10-15% of the CPU. However, I think that may not happen every time; in other words, gam_server may be unrelated to this kmail bug. But could kmail be saving to disk as I type, and be having a "fight" with gam_server? -- KMail slows down while typing an e-mail https://launchpad.net/bugs/48389 -- kubuntu-bugs mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/kubuntu-bugs
