[kdepim-users] KMail SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW

[O. Sinclair]

On 24/11/11 14:55, John Aldrich wrote:
> System is Fedora 16 on an AMD Athlon(tm) 64 X2 Dual Core Processor 6000+
> with 4 Gigs of RAM. NOT a "slow" machine!
> Admittedly I have a LOT of stored email, but the system is slower than
> molasses in January at the arctic circle! Why? What changed between the
> "old" KMail and the "new" kmail? I wish I could just go back to the old
> kmail (Fedora 15 and prior) until this gets sorted out. Not to mention
> KMail is a HUGE resource hog. I watched the temperature gauge on system
> shoot up when trying to "sort" through a folder that had a few thousand
> messages. Why????
> Not to mention, it wants to "filter" each folder EVERY time I open it.
> Again...why? I don't WANT to filter EVERY message in EVERY folder! I
> told the filters to ONLY filter /one/ account, but it seems to ignore
> that setting.
> What the heck is WRONG with KMail that it won't do what I tell it to???
> Who programmed it to process filters on EVERY local folder????
>

One thing I noticed was that there were lots of empty "categories" in 
configuration of KMail (do not remember tab at this moment). Removed all 
empty ones, restarted KMail and it was/is a bit faster.

Beats me where they originate from...

Sinclair
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