kmail and evolution

[José Matos]

On Thursday 03 April 2008 09:20:36 Paul F. Johnson wrote:
> kmail seems incredibly slow and has great problems importing all of my
> evolution bits and pieces (like email and address books) unless I tell it
> to import just the mbox folders - it reaches my main folder (which
> evolution seems to store the junk email in as well as my own!), gets to 99%
> import and hangs. I can import the mbox but not everything else.
>
> I know kde apps tend to be slower at booting up but are fine running, but
> kmail seems sluggish even when running.
>
> I have considered claws and thunderbird, but claws's spam handling system
> sucks and thunderbird won't import my evolution folders.
>
> Does anyone have any ideas on getting evolution working again or how to get
> kmail to work at something approximating a usable speed?

  I use kde exclusively and the slowdown that you mention only happened after 
changing from F8 to rawhide. I suspect that this is probably related with the 
kernel debug options that particularly hit kmail. This problem does not occur 
with other kde applications just with kmail. :-(

> Using Fedora 8.92 rawhide, fully updated last night.
>
> TTFN
>
> Paul

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José Abílio