On Tuesday 08 December 2009 01:55:36 and regarding:

Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 08:41:15 schrieb David C. Rankin:

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Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail?

Well the initial access to a folder (after kmail install) takes a few seconds, but after that it's usually fast.

I just counted and I have about 51k mails.

You should note that this also relies on your imap server performance. I had used courier before and switched to dovecot which is a lot faster.

Pierre

Thanks Pierre. I use dovecot. The message reloading/sorting that is slow is mail stored locally from a pop3 server so the filtering is all done from ~/.kde4/share/apps/kmail. It's like kde4 has slowed down. My 2 imap accounts are fine. I'll keep an eye on it. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On 12/08/2009 08:00 PM, Atanas Zhelev wrote:

2009/12/8 David C. Rankin:

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On Tuesday 08 December 2009 01:55:36 and regarding:

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Am Dienstag 08 Dezember 2009 08:41:15 schrieb David C. Rankin:

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Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail?

Hi,

i have 11000+ messages in my POP3 account and don't see the slowdown you are experiencing. I can't offer an explanation why you have such a problem though.

-- BRS Atanas Zhelev

Thanks Atanas, I don't know what it is either. I know it didn't used to be there. For testing, I loaded thunderbird again, and the responsiveness of tbird is perfect. I know tbird is using mbox and kmail defaults to maildir, but honestly, the largest folder I have has a little over 41k messages in it and I can literally go get a Dr. Pepper waiting for kmail to read and thread the messages each time I access any folder with 8K plus messages. I'll check on a box with a fresh ~/ directory (without all the setting mods in ~/.kde4/share/... I have on my arch box). I'll report back if I hit on something. -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com

On 12/09/2009 01:14 AM, Fabian Schölzel wrote:

2009/12/8 David C. Rankin:

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Specifically I see a slowdown when I access a mail folder containing>2000 messages or so. Each time I leave and return to a folder (my arch folder for example) kmail reloads and re-sorts the entire folder taking some 20+ seconds each time. It is like all 'folder state' caching (for lack of better words) has been turned off. (if that is possible) Anybody else seeing a slow down in kmail?

I filed a bug report some time ago, maybe this is what you are experiencing? It's about having more than 1000 unreaded mails in a folder. (Yes, exactly 1000. 999 are fine.)

http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=207628

Fabian, That looks exactly like what is going on. I have a few very active subscriptions 300-400 emails/day. Go away for the weekend and you are big trouble :-) -- David C. Rankin, J.D.,P.E. Rankin Law Firm, PLLC 510 Ochiltree Street Nacogdoches, Texas 75961 Telephone: (936) 715-9333 Facsimile: (936) 715-9339 www.rankinlawfirm.com