I've been using Evolution as my email client since RH8. I hate it because it seems to get confused if one opens up an email or changes mail folders while it is downloading emails from the server. When it does this, it goes into a death spiral of "saving folder" and "Retrieving message XXXX" and "Fetching mail". This wouldn't be that annoying except that when it happens it uses almost 100% of the processor power and doesn't seem to respond to "nice" settings. Furthermore, the process takes forever to resolve itself. It may get the folder "99%" stored in 5 to 10 minutes, but then it goes for 15 minutes before the status changes. And you can't view/edit/send any email while this is happening. It totally ties up my laptop and is terrible for battery life when it happens. Usually I resort to shutting down Evolution with "evolution --force-shutdown". Then I run "evolution --offline" to restart it, whereby at least that removes the "Fetching mail" process from messing things up. It also helps not to "Restore settings" so that the email its trying to retrieve doesn't mess things up. > That leaves just the "storing folder" process to run. It generates tons of errors if you run it from the command line. FWIW, there is nothing wrong with my hard drive. I've had this issue on 2 different computers. My email setup is 6 different gmail accounts, being sorted into about 25 folders via rules. The largest folder has about 150,000 messages in it. The smallest one has 5,000 messages in it. Is anyone using Thunderbird like this ? How does it compare ? How hard is it to move over to it ? Thanks -- fedora-list mailing list fedora-list@xxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe: https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-list
