GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 233750
Send / Recieve is SLOW checking pop mail
Last modified: 2003-05-01 05:07:34 UTC
Description of Problem: "Send / Recieve " is friggin' slow. Steps to reproduce the problem: 1. Click "Send / Recieve" 2. Wait *forever* 3. Get mail Actual Results: This isn't a major showstopper, but it is quite annoying. Everything works (well, sort of), but checking mail takes considerably and quite noticeably longer than it did under 1.0.8. Expected Results: Faster! How often does this happen? I haven't seen it go fast (and by fast, I mean even when there's no mail to download it takes upwards of 30 seconds to a minute to complete the transaction) Additional Information: Two additional bits of info: I'm checking a Yahoo! Mail pop3 account, and I have my settings set to "Leave messages on the server" There have also been anomalies (mainly the first couple of times) where Evolution would download messages it had already downloaded (because the messages themselves were still on the server, but marked "read").
...and your server doesn't support CAPA and/or UIDL and so we have to md5sum all the message headers in order to see if we've downloaded the message(s) in a previous session. this is what takes so long. suggest unchecking "leave on server" if you want it to be faster.
Unchecking "Leave messages on server" is not acceptable, as that would remove that functionality. ;) Seriously, tho - I assume you mean to say that Yahoo! Mail must not suppoert CAPA and/or UIDL (whatever those are) - is this something I could bug them about? And is this different from before? It never seemed to take this long with 1.0.8. Oh well, carry on - it looks like you have a bunch more bugs to worry about that are much more major. Thanks for all the work, I love Evolution! Troy
dunno, you might be able to bug them about it.
*** http://bugzilla.ximian.com/show_bug.cgi?id=42106 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Since I see someone else ran into this, I thought I'd add my recent experience - while using Mozilla Mail (on Windows) for the briefest of moments, I was surprised to see my mail be checked almost instantaneously. This is for the exact same Yahoo! account that I normally use with Evolution, and with the exact same settings (ie, Leave Messages on Server). Could someone explain why Mozilla Mail can do this so fast and Evolution can't (even though it used to)? I don't mean to complain, of course, but the geeky side of me is curious to know. Thanks, Troy