On Wednesday 07 October 2020 13:55:23 Gene Heskett via tde-users wrote: > On Wednesday 07 October 2020 11:24:30 Michael via tde-users wrote: > > Not horribly important, but whenever KMail checks mail is ‘freezes’ > > for a bit and interrupts typing/mouse clicks (just for KMail, rest of > > system runs fine). > > > > Would it be hard to make KMail multi-threaded? I’m assuming that’d > > ‘fix’ the freezes… > > > > Again, not at all critical, but if it’s easy, I’ll get off my butt and > > put in a feature request. > > I was given to understand a decade back by Ingo Kloker that it was going > to be a major rewrite. > > So I did the next best thing. using fetchmail I took that job away from > kmail by running as a daemon set to go get any email there might be at > my ISP's mail server, and configured it to use procmail as the MTA. Then > I learned to write recipes for procmail to get rid of the worst of the > spammers, the wrote more recipes to filter incoming thru clamav, and > ditto spamd so at least 75% of that crap goes to /dev/null. > > What survives that gauntlet gets dumped into /var/mail/name, and another > scrip has launched inotifywait to watch that buffer location. > Inotifywait exits with the name of the file and my script then uses dbus > to send kmail a get the mail command. And relaunches inotifywait again. > So the freeze is reduced to a few milliseconds while it gets that > incoming mail and sorts it to the correct folder. > > Sounds a bit complex but it all Just Works. 2 mouse clicks to answer a > message as I am doing now. Whats not to like? > > Cheers, Gene Heskett Hi, Gene! I want to be just like you when I grow up. Bill ____________________________________________________ tde-users mailing list -- users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx To unsubscribe send an email to users-leave@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Web mail archive available at https://mail.trinitydesktop.org/mailman3/hyperkitty/list/users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
