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[Rich Duzenbury]

On Mon, 2005-01-03 at 15:57 +1000, CB wrote:
> Rich Duzenbury wrote:
> 
> > Balderdash.  I manage over 25,000 emails with courier imap and
> > evolution, and it is very pleasant.  Be sure to check 'Automatically
> > synchronise remote mail locally' in the Tools->Settings, Edit Primary
> > Account, Receiving options tab.
> 
> Well, I am an inexpert user of both Ubuntu and Evolution, so no doubt 
> there may be something that I haven't configured that might speed things 
> up. But in it's current state, on my system (warty, updated daily) in 
> conjunction with my imap server (fastmail, don't know what software), I 
> find Evolution to be by far the slowest email client I have ever used. 
> Thunderbird and mutt are 10's of seconds faster on many operations.

As a counter-opinion, I find on my system (also warty, updated daily)
that evo opens quickly, mail management is quite a breeze, and things
get done in fine fashion.  The mail server is a P4 2.4 with 512Mb ram
running courier-imap, and my workstation is a P4 2.4 with 512Mb ram.  

Perhaps you are RAM or CPU limited, or perhaps your IMAP server doesn't
work and play well with evo?  

I would expect a console client to be generally faster than a GUI
client, but I cannot say why you have such difficulty.  It's too bad,
really.  

I recently moved my desktop to ubuntu, a true joy, which comes with, as
you are well aware, evo 2.0.2.  My only complaint is that the summary
screen was removed somewhere between 1.4 and 2.0.2, and I honestly
cannot fathom why that was done.  Other than that, it's been an
excellent mail client in my opinion.

--
Regards,
Rich

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