[Kde-pim] Akademy, KMail and Thunderbird

[Anne Wilson]

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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