Fetchmail / Local Spool

David Malcolm dmalcolm at redhat.com
Wed Jan 19 00:32:04 UTC 2005


On Tue, 2005-01-18 at 17:02 -0500, Thom Paine wrote:
> Hi list.
> 
> I am currently using fetchmail to pull mail from my server and dump it
> in my local mail folder in Fedora so that with gKrellm I can see how
> many messages are waiting. The problem I'm having is that Evolution is
> so painfully slow to retrieve the messages from the local mail spool.
> And I mean unbearably slow. It normally takes 1 or 2 seconds per message
> to pull it from the spool and put it into evolution.
> 
> Is this a known problem or should I try some troubleshooting steps to
> take this further? It's getting aggravating because on a weekend I can
> have as many as 1000 messages and it takes so long to retrieve them.
> Connecting via pop it only takes a couple of seconds....

Does setting CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 reveal any useful information?

> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -=/>Thom
> 
> 




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