kmail

[Gene Heskett]

On Monday 14 May 2007, Rick wrote:
>On Sunday 13 May 2007 11:27:22 pm Gene Heskett wrote:
>> On Sunday 13 May 2007, Rick wrote:
>> >notice, that kmail is slow moving into folder, and trying to filter
>> > emails, is also very slow. 7.04 feisty
>> >
>> >Tks -
>> >Rich
>>
>> Some of that is easily alleviated.  Turn off the rx setups you have in
>> kmail, then setup fetchmail to do the pulls from your server(s) and place
>> it in an unprivileged users Maildir.
>>
>> The setup procmail to read that dir, run it through a bunch of procmail
>> recipes including spamassassin, and have procmail send anything with 8 or
>> more ** in the X-Spam-Level header to /dev/null, and put the good stuff
>> into /var/spool/username/mail.
>
>Thanks Gene, for the quick reply, thought there might be a switch or two to
>shut off or turn on... or maybe a tweak in a config file, but did not expect
>to be running fetch and procmail servers... (laptop) to read mail.,
>also, I notice kmail and konversation are not as stable compare to dapper.
>had a major crash, when trying to filter 5000 emails with 23 filters...
> crash n burn .

I haven't experienced that in ages.

>doesn't kmail use a sql database backend ?

Nope, just regular Maildir, although it can also use an existing mailfile.

>Thanks  -
>Rick



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