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On Samstag, 7. Juli 2007, Daniel D Jones wrote: |
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> I've been using Kmail for some time but am running into a couple of issues. |
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> I'm not sure if they're actually Kmail issues and if they're actually |
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> outside the Kmail program. |
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> First, using spamassassin, Kmail freezes every time it checks my mail. If |
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> I have only a few messages, it might freeze for a few seconds. If I have a |
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> lot of messages, it might take 30 or 45 seconds before the program starts |
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> responding again. If I'm in the middle of, say, typing an email, the key |
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> presses are stored and processed once the program starts responding again. |
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> If I turn off email processing through spamassassin, the issue either goes |
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> away or the freeze is so quick as to be unnoticeable. I can understand it |
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> taking time to process incoming email but I don't understand why it can't |
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> be done in the background on a modern system. Is this normal behavior or |
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> is there an issue with either Kmail or spamassassin? |
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it is an issue with spamassasin. Try bogofilter, maybe it will be faster. It |
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is very fast for me. |
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> Second, Kmail doesn't seem very adept at handling folders with lots of |
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> messages. |
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yes it does. |
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> I have one folder which has about 40k messages in it. It's the |
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> archives of a mailing list I run and I expect it to grow much larger |
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> relatively quickly. It's in maildir format on a reiserfs volume. |
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that is your problem. |
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> Just |
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> clicking on the folder makes Kmail freeze for about four of five seconds |
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> before it displays a list of messages in the window and becomes responsive |
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> to key presses and mouse clicks again. If I try to search for messages in |
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> the folder, the search will run for a minute or two and Kmail will crash. |
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> Every time. This rather defeats the purpose of having an archive folder. |
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> Is anyone else using Kmail with folders holding thousands of email |
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> messages? Have you seen these issues? If Kmail is working well in those |
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> circumstances for you, are you using maildir or mbox? What file system? |
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I have a 70000 messages folder - and several in the 30000 messages realm. |
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If they become slow, it is time to defrag. |
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Really, this is a fs problem. I like reiserfs, and it is very good with small |
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files - but fragmentation is a real problem and slows down everything |
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horrendously. |
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Back up everything and run a mkfs.reiserfs. Restore, and kmail will be fast |
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again. |
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> I'd also be interested in reports of anyone using Evolution with large |
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> folders, or recommendations for other email clients. I'd be particularly |
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> interested in one which precreates indexes to speed up searches. |
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evolution? that bugged to death thingy? |
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