On Thu, 2010-04-22 at 18:51 +0930, Tim wrote: > On Wed, 2010-04-21 at 15:27 -0400, fred smith wrote: > > Yeah, I've tried Evolution 2 or 3 times over the last few years and > > always ended up being disappointed. For one thing it's DOG SLOW. It > > seems to want to index all the mail folders every time it starts and > > that can take MINUTES. and even when past that it's still like > > molasses climbing a hill in January in northern canada. > > I can't say I notice it trying to index everything when firing up. > Though I haven't got it set to check all folders, nor do spam checking, > nor do filtering. > > Filtering is dead slow, that's for sure. After setting up about four > filters, it gets really painful. So I just drag a bunch of messages > from my inbox to a folder, every now and then. I have a whole bunch of filters and don't even notice the time lag. Note that you can log filter actions to see what Evo is doing (this requires editing a Gconf flag but it's not hard). Obviously the complexity of the filters can play a part, e.g. if they have to do LDAP lookups against a slow server then you're asking for trouble. > It's also rather bad at doing two things at once. Such as deleting a > message, then trying to read another one. It won't open the next one > until the deletion has completely finished what it's up to. True. As I said in an earlier reply, the hope is that changing Bonobo for D-Bus will help a lot. > But, despite the problems, it's still the least worst GUI client > available to me, out of those I've tried. That's hardly a good > recommendation, though. Agreed. Every so often I get mad at Evo and switch to TBird for half an hour or so, then switch back. I've also tried Claws for a few days and didn't like it much (it didn't support correct IMAP deletion at the time, maybe that's changed), but that's more a question of what you're used to. poc -- users mailing list users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe or change subscription options: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/users Guidelines: http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines
