[Kde-pim] Akademy, KMail and Thunderbird

[Andrew Mason]

Your awesome Volker!!

2009/8/3 Anne Wilson <annew at kde.org>:
> On Sunday 02 August 2009 18:48:42 Volker Krause wrote:
>> On Sunday 02 August 2009 18:37:10 Anne Wilson wrote:
>> > Those who were at Akademy will remember that the wireless link got
>> > swamped, making things very difficult.  While trying to find
>> > work-arounds, and before I knew what the problem really was, I tried
>> > reading my imap mail in Thunderbird, as well as in KMail.
>> >
>> > I would start KMail, and find that it stuck for a very long time,
>> > presumably reading headers.  After a while I opened Thunderbird, and was
>> > surprised to find that I could immediately enter the folders.  Typically
>> > I would read three or four messages before KMail gave me a message list.
>> >
>> > One difference that I should mention is that I don't have Enigmail
>> > enabled on the netbook - if gpg is one part of the puzzle that would make
>> > a difference.
>> >
>> > I'm really curious as to why KMail was so slow.  Any ideas?
>>
>> without knowing what Thunderbird does exactly, my guess would be that the
>> reason for this is the amount of local caching. KMail so far has only two
>> modes: cache everything or cache basically nothing, selectable only at
>> account creation time. Fortunately, this is about to change with the
>> Akonadi port, allowing much more fine-grained cache policies. Together with
>> the improved incremental syncing algorithm and IDLE support there should be
>> no slowness left ;-)
>>
> You know how a child feels, when someone mentions Christmas? ;-)
>
> I had to disable kres-migrator on the netbook, as I couldn't resolve that
> issue, but I have a desktop and this laptop that seem happy enough, so I'm
> just waiting for the soot to fall down the chimney :-)
>
> Anne
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