GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 322596
2.4 New-mail check takes much longer than 2.2
Last modified: 2006-03-27 23:18:26 UTC
When checking a large set of IMAP mailboxes, 2.4 takes a substantially longer amount of time to update the "new message" counters in the folder list than 2.2. On my set of approximately 40 folders, including some folders that have over a thousand messages, 2.2 took on the order of 10-20 seconds, whereas 2.4 takes several minutes. Of interest, 2.2 took a number of minutes to open the larger folders for viewing, whereas 2.4 opens them almost instantaneously. This was not a problem, as the large folders were typically viewer rarely, and usually locally on the imap server. It seems that 2.4 retieves all the message envelopes before updateing the new message counter, whereas 2.2 only retieved them as needed.
adding keywords, this is "IMAP" account type and not the deprecated, experimental "IMAP4rev1" account type i assume?
Both actually.
Still in 2.4.2.1. I've switched to using thunderbird for mail as a temporary fix, since it is able to tell me what folders have what amount of new mail in a matter of seconds instead of minutes, just like evolution 2.2 was able to.
Jeremy, thanks for taking the time to report this bug. I believe this is the same issue as bug 336076. Although that bug was filed later, it already has a lot more detailed information. Thus, I am going to mark this one as a duplicate. Jeremy, I'd like you to confirm this indeed is the very same issue and add any additional information you can to bug 336076. Thanks. Although you likely alraedy know this: Running 'CAMEL_VERBOSE_DEBUG=1 evolution' should tell you, if this indeed is the same issue. *** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 336076 ***