[kdepim-users] Kontact/Kmail slow with large dimap account

Anne Wilson cannewilson at googlemail.com
Thu Apr 24 13:28:12 BST 2008


On Thursday 24 April 2008 12:47:47 Gandalf wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 24. April 2008 13:30:05 schrieb Anne Wilson:
> > > Has someone else experienced such a sluggish behaviour of kmail with
> > > large dimap accounts? What solutions are people on this list using?
> >
> > I don't use dimap, but regular imap on my system is not slow.  One thing
> > that might be relevant is the format of your mailboxes.  maildir is very
> > much faster than mbox.
>
> Thanks for the hint, Anne. My mailboxes are in maildir format, though.
> 	If I check only for updates in the inbox folder, it is fast. Can I tell
> kmail to check only the inbox for the regular mail checks, and check all
> folders only when requiring so manually? Then it would be sufficient for me
> to check all folders when I start and stop using each computer to
> synchronize with the imap server.
>
I don't know any way to do that, but I'll ask around.

Anne
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