Evolution weirdness

[David Malcolm]

On Wed, 2004-11-03 at 11:11 -0600, Thomas Cameron wrote:
> All -
> 
> Using FC3 RC5 (installed from the iso images at
> http://testing.fedora.redhat.com/tree/i386/iso/).  My machine is a dual
> Xeon 1GHz with a gig of memory and Ultra160 disks - relatively snappy
> machine.  My mail server is on my local network here at home.  I am
> running evolution-2.0.2-3.  I get my mail via IMAP.
> 
> I notice that often when I open a message Evolution takes several
> seconds (sometimes as many as 10-15) to display it.  I also notice that
> the mail server hard drive light stays lit during this delay.  It seems
> like somehow Evolution is re-indexing the folder or something for every
> message opened.  The more messages in the IMAP folder, the longer the
> delay.
> 
> I don't recall this behavior in older versions of Evolution (1.4 or 2).
> 
> Any ideas how to make this stop?

Can you try running evolution with CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 (which should
make it output the full IMAP conversation it has with the server) - this
should give more clues as to what's going on.

Thanks

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> Thomas Cameron, RHCE, CNE, MCSE, MCT
>