I've been using Kmail for some time but am running into a couple of issues. I'm not sure if they're actually Kmail issues and if they're actually outside the Kmail program.
First, using spamassassin, Kmail freezes every time it checks my mail. If I have only a few messages, it might freeze for a few seconds. If I have a lot of messages, it might take 30 or 45 seconds before the program starts responding again. If I'm in the middle of, say, typing an email, the key presses are stored and processed once the program starts responding again. If I turn off email processing through spamassassin, the issue either goes away or the freeze is so quick as to be unnoticeable. I can understand it taking time to process incoming email but I don't understand why it can't be done in the background on a modern system. Is this normal behavior or is there an issue with either Kmail or spamassassin? Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of messages. I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the archives of a mailing list I run and I expect it to grow much larger relatively quickly. It's in maildir format on a reiserfs volume. Just clicking on the folder makes Kmail freeze for about four of five seconds before it displays a list of messages in the window and becomes responsive to key presses and mouse clicks again. If I try to search for messages in the folder, the search will run for a minute or two and Kmail will crash. Every time. This rather defeats the purpose of having an archive folder. Is anyone else using Kmail with folders holding thousands of email messages? Have you seen these issues? If Kmail is working well in those circumstances for you, are you using maildir or mbox? What file system? I'd also be interested in reports of anyone using Evolution with large folders, or recommendations for other email clients. I'd be particularly interested in one which precreates indexes to speed up searches. Thanks, Dan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
