[Bug 158949] New: kmail uses excessive amounts of CPU when checking email

[Daniel O'Connor]

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           Summary: kmail uses excessive amounts of CPU when checking email
           Product: kmail
           Version: unspecified
          Platform: FreeBSD Ports
        OS/Version: FreeBSD
            Status: UNCONFIRMED
          Severity: normal
          Priority: NOR
         Component: general
        AssignedTo: kdepim-bugs kde org
        ReportedBy: darius dons net au


Version:            (using KDE 3.5.8)
Installed from:    FreeBSD Ports
Compiler:          gcc version 4.2.1 20070719  [FreeBSD]
 
OS:                FreeBSD

kmail (standalone and in kontact) uses a lot of CPU (eg 40% of my Pentium-M 1.4GHz) when checking email. I find this pretty surprising because I would have thought it would be a bandwidth limited task.

I don't really know what I can try to work out what it's spending it's time doing though :(