[kdepim-users] KMail SLLLLOOOOOWWWWWW

[O. Sinclair]

On 24/11/11 15:51, John Aldrich wrote:
> On Thu November 24 2011 8:37:55 AM jmaldrich at yahoo.com wrote:
>> On Thu November 24 2011 3:14:05 PM O. Sinclair wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> It is in "Appearance", tab "Message Tags"
>>
>> Didn't help. Another "odd" thing to me is that any time I open a folder it
>> shows in the "preview" pane "Retrieving folder contents" but the message
>> list is already up, so what the heck is it trying to retrieve?????
>>
>> Is KMail now storing emails in a DATABASE???? If so, how the heck do I
>> switch back to plain old file-based email????
>>
> Just an example here... My "inbox" has a whole 2 messages in it. It should
> just open up and show the message bodies, right? Guess again. The infamous
> "Retrieving folder contents" is all I see in the preview pane. WHY in the name
> of all that is good and Holy do we have to "retrieve folder contents" for TWO
> FREAKING MESSAGES?!?!?!!?! There is something SERIOUSLY wrong with this
> picture! I mean, I could understand that behavior if I had a slow machine, but
> this is NOT a slow machine!!!
> _______________________________________________

the best advice I can give at this moment - leave the computer on and 
KMail running. Go and have dinner or something. By the time you come 
back hopefully whatever it needs to do initially has been done.

I had the same problem on first one or two startups, now gone.

Sinclair

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