On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: > 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?
it is an issue with spamassasin. Try bogofilter, maybe it will be faster. It is very fast for me. > > Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of > messages. yes it does. > 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. that is your problem. > 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 have a 70000 messages folder - and several in the 30000 messages realm. If they become slow, it is time to defrag. Really, this is a fs problem. I like reiserfs, and it is very good with small files - but fragmentation is a real problem and slows down everything horrendously. Back up everything and run a mkfs.reiserfs. Restore, and kmail will be fast again. > > 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. > evolution? that bugged to death thingy? -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
