Package: icedove Version: 3.0.11-1+squeeze8 Severity: important Icedove redownloads all message headers for no good reason.
Take a situation IMAP with 100000 messages of which 99999 are already on the client. Icedove happily starts downloading 100000 messages, which makes an operation which should take 50ms (is there mail? Yes? Fetch new mail, put in database), in the order of minutes, which is thus 200 times slower than what is possible. At this rate, it would be faster to pick up the phone, hand dial the number, ask an operator to use the switch board to connect me to some place. In short, this is ridiculous. There are more people having this problem (multiple people on getsatisfaction.com). This problem has been known since at least 2010 and probably has existed forever. I also take suggestions for mail clients that do work, but they should be feature complete. If you say that Icedove in fact has been an elaborate joke, please explain the joke as it is beyond my comprehension. -- System Information: Debian Release: 6.0.4 APT prefers stable APT policy: (700, 'stable'), (500, 'stable-updates') Architecture: amd64 (x86_64) Kernel: Linux 3.2.0-0.bpo.1-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Versions of packages icedove depends on: ii debianutils 3.4 Miscellaneous utilities specific t ii fontconfig 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libasound2 1.0.23-2.1 shared library for ALSA applicatio ii libatk1.0-0 1.30.0-1 The ATK accessibility toolkit ii libc6 2.11.3-2 Embedded GNU C Library: Shared lib ii libcairo2 1.10.2-7~bpo60+1 The Cairo 2D vector graphics libra ii libdbus-1-3 1.2.24-4+squeeze1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libfontconfig1 2.8.0-2.1 generic font configuration library ii libfreetype6 2.4.2-2.1+squeeze4 FreeType 2 font engine, shared lib ii libgcc1 1:4.4.5-8 GCC support library ii libglib2.0-0 2.24.2-1 The GLib library of C routines ii libgtk2.0-0 2.20.1-2 The GTK+ graphical user interface ii libjpeg62 6b1-1 The Independent JPEG Group's JPEG ii libnspr4-0d 4.8.6-1 NetScape Portable Runtime Library ii libnss3-1d 3.12.8-1+squeeze4 Network Security Service libraries ii libpango1.0-0 1.28.3-1+squeeze2 Layout and rendering of internatio ii libpng12-0 1.2.44-1+squeeze4 PNG library - runtime ii libsqlite3-0 3.7.9-3 SQLite 3 shared library ii libstartup-notificati 0.10-1 library for program launch feedbac ii libstdc++6 4.4.5-8 The GNU Standard C++ Library v3 ii libx11-6 2:1.3.3-4 X11 client-side library ii libxrender1 1:0.9.6-1 X Rendering Extension client libra ii libxt6 1:1.0.7-1 X11 toolkit intrinsics library ii psmisc 22.11-1 utilities that use the proc file s ii zlib1g 1:1.2.3.4.dfsg-3 compression library - runtime Versions of packages icedove recommends: ii myspell-en-us [myspell-dictio 1:3.2.1-2 English_american dictionary for my Versions of packages icedove suggests: ii libdbus-glib-1-2 0.88-2.1 simple interprocess messaging syst ii libgconf2-4 2.28.1-6 GNOME configuration database syste ii libgnome2-0 2.30.0-1 The GNOME library - runtime files ii libgnomevfs2-0 1:2.24.3-1 GNOME Virtual File System (runtime ii libgssapi-krb5-2 1.8.3+dfsg-4squeeze5 MIT Kerberos runtime libraries - k ii ttf-lyx 1.6.7-1 TrueType versions of some TeX font -- no debconf information -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
