Kim Lux wrote:
I'm finding that Evolution is slow to process incoming mail when filtering spam and it runs with a high nice priority that seems to hog the CPU sometimes when I am multi tasking.
One option you might want to look into (although it would mean some configuration) is to download your e-mail separately from your mail client. If you set up something like fetchmail + postfix (or sendmail if you must) + SpamAssassin + procmail, then mail will trickle in to your machine periodically and be filtered in the background. When you open up a mail client, it's already there and filtered.
You could also add in Dovecot to "publish" the e-mails over IMAP. That would mean that Dovecot is responsible for storing your e-mails, not your mail client, and means that you can switch mail clients and have all your e-mail Just There and working.
Hope this helps,
James.