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List:       kdepim-users
Subject:    Re: [kdepim-users] KMail + IMAP painfully slow
From:       Ingo =?iso-8859-1?q?Kl=F6cker?= <kloecker () kde ! org>
Date:       2007-05-15 19:59:09
Message-ID: 200705152159.11844 () erwin ! ingo-kloecker ! de
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On Tuesday 15 May 2007 01:54, Ross Boylan wrote:
> I've spent the day watching KMail be unresponsive (using most of the
> CPU, not updating the screen, not responding to the mouse) using a
> local (Cyrus) IMAP server.
>
> Moving messages takes many minutes, sometimes (even when it's not
> many messages).

Moving messages from one IMAP folder to the other should be quite fast 
because it happens on the server. What happens during those many 
minutes? Is KMail eating CPU like mad? Or does is just hang and do 
nothing?

> Getting the text of a message to display can take forever.

Weird. Same question: Does KMail eat CPU or just hang? I suppose the 
message size doesn't matter.

> I disabled automatic checking, and this seemed to help some.  The
> manual check remains slow, I guess because it insists on visiting
> every folder.

You can disable checking for new mail per folder.

> Am I doing something wrong?  Is my mailstore bigger than KMail was
> designed for?  Or is KMail just not that good at IMAP?

Especially with IMAP the size of the mailstore should be more or less 
irrelevant. A possible bottleneck is the fact that we use the mbox 
format for caching the message headers.

> I have 2 imap accounts; a small remote one and a large local one. 
> The local one has about 115 folders (with several levels of nesting),
> some of which have a lot of messages (several in the 10's of
> thousands, the largest around 80k).  KMail's area under .kde is about
> 335Mg.  I have yet to visit most of the folders.

Do the problems occur with both accounts?


Regards,
Ingo

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