[kde-linux] Kontact/KMail Freezes

[Robin Atwood]

On Thursday 09 November 2006 05:57, Thomas McGuire wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> Am Wednesday 08 November 2006 23:45 schrieb Hal Vaughan:
> > I've searched for this problem and the only recent reference I've found
> > is a problem with someone needing to change their theme, and I don't
> > see how that could effect this.
> >
> > I use spam filters (with SpamAssassin) on KMail/Kontact.  I'm using
> > KMail version 1.9.1 and Kontact 1.2 in KDE 3.5.2 on Kubuntu Dapper
> > Drake.  Whenever KMail tries to retrieve e-mail and it goes through the
> > spam filter, Kontact freezes up completely.  If I'm writing e-mail to
> > someone or making a post on a newsgroup, I can often type 3-5 lines of
> > text while it's locked up, but when it finishes, the text "catches up"
> > with me.  If I'm reading an e-mail, I have to wait before I can scroll
> > down and if I'm doing anything with the mouse or GUI, it locks up and
> > nothing can happen.
> >
> > I remember when spam filtering was first added this was an issue and I
> > read that it was being fixed, but I'm still having trouble with it.
> > This is moving past irritating and getting to the point where it is
> > almost making KMail and Kontact unusable in my work setting.
> >
> > Is there some way I can deal with this?
> This is a known bug, see http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41514
> 
> There some things you can do to make the problem less annoying:
> - use bogofilter instead of spamassassin, it is much faster
> - create some filter rules which moves the mails from mailinglists into their 
> own folder, and then stop (so the mailinglist mails do not get through the 
> spamassassin filter).
> Then only non-mailinglist mail blocks KMail
> - from the bugreoport: One can always pick up the mail with an external 
> process like fetchmail, use procmail to run it through spamassassin and then 
> grab it with kmail once it has been analysed

I do precisely that, use procmail to filter all mailing list mail straight into my mbox,
and then what's left is piped through spamc which flags the spam. KMail then
simply reads the mbox and does normal filtering into different folders. All the heavy
processing is done in the background by daemons and the KMail UI remains responsive.

HTH
-Robin.
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