[OT] Deafening silence

[jdow]

From: "Tim" <ignored_mailbox at yahoo.com.au>
Sent: Thursday, 2010/April/22 09:35


> On Fri, 2010-04-23 at 00:34 +0930, Tim wrote:
>> You don't happen to know what the flag is, by the way?  
> 
> Scratch that, I found it moments later (after missing the obvious).
> 
>> But, I can't see what could possibly be wrong with a filter such as
>> this:
>>  
>>   reply-to contains users at lists.fedoraproject.org
>>   move to folder lists/fedora
>>   stop processing
> 
> Looking at the log, each filtered message takes at least 3 to 4 seconds
> to go through.  That's tediously slow.
> 
> Compare it to "The Bat!" that I used to use with Windows, years ago,
> each message zipped through.  Imagine bending over a deck of cards until
> they flip over, flapping between your fingers.  You could hear the hard
> drive kerchunking, like that, as each message passed through.
> 
> I've, now, spent an hour filtering messages on Evolution that would have
> taken seconds on another client (with years old software, and a much
> slower PC).

What "filter" are you running? What possessed you to run it inside
an email client? (What possessed Fedora to commit that atrocity?)

If you are running SpamAssassin as a filter you want to run it at the
time you "fetchmail" messages from your ISP and have the filtered and
tagged results placed in your local Dovecot mailspool. You get a small
lag on messages sent to you before they can be read. But you see no
long delays as you start your email client and roll through your
messages reading and discarding.

{^_^}   (VERY long time SpamAssassin admin for two people and "many"
        email addresses.)