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From: Peter Ruskin <peter.ruskin@×××××××××.com>
To: gentoo-user@l.g.o
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions
Date: Sat, 07 Jul 2007 19:57:25
Message-Id: 200707072051.42992.peter.ruskin@dsl.pipex.com
In Reply to: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions by Daniel D Jones
1 On Saturday 07 July 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote:
2 > I've been using Kmail for some time but am running into a couple
3 > of issues.   I'm not sure if they're actually Kmail issues and if
4 > they're actually outside the Kmail program.
5 >
6 > First, using spamassassin, Kmail freezes every time it checks my
7 > mail.  If I have only a few messages, it might freeze for a few
8 > seconds.  If I have a lot of messages, it might take 30 or 45
9 > seconds before the program starts responding again.  If I'm in
10 > the middle of, say, typing an email, the key presses are stored
11 > and processed once the program starts responding again. If I turn
12 > off email processing through spamassassin, the issue either goes
13 > away or the freeze is so quick as to be unnoticeable.  I can
14 > understand it taking time to process incoming email but I don't
15 > understand why it can't be done in the background on a modern
16 > system.  Is this normal behavior or is there an issue with either
17 > Kmail or spamassassin?
18
19 This is a very long-standing KDE bug:
20 http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4151
21
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23 Peter
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25 Gentoo Linux: Portage 2.1.3_rc6 kernel-2.6.21-gentoo-r2
26 AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 4400+ gcc(GCC): 4.1.2
27 KDE: 3.5.7 Qt: 3.3.8
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Re: [gentoo-user] Kmail issues/questions Alex Schuster <wonko@×××××××××.org>